On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:59:47PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > A lot of the subcommands are specific to our development model, and so > it's not clear that cdm (or even parts of cdm) will ever make it into > Mercurial, even as a bundled extension. So I think there will always be > some risk of name collision. I suppose we could prefix all the > subcommands with "cdm", but that gets unwieldy fast.
The mercurial team wouldn't want cdm, but there are pieces of it that might make sense (the pretty printing from 'list', for example). > If there's a name collision with Mercurial proper or a bundled > extension, I think we'll almost certainly need to change our name. > Which could be painful. For some of these commands I think it'll be "when", not "if". I can't believe we would change our command name when that happens. Dean
