Richard Lowe writes:
> James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> writes:
> 
> > Dean Roehrich writes:
> >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Richard Lowe wrote:
> >> > I asked this at the time, and while one person did say something much
> >> > like the above, everyone else's view was that it was the common term
> >> > in use.  I'd say if you feel strongly enough that it should be
> >> > changed, come up with alternate but equally understandable/common
> >> > wording and file a bug.
> >> 
> >> In patch(1) terms they're called "rejected hunks", or simply "rejects".
> >
> > I don't think we're talking about the same things.  "Merge turds," in
> > gatekeeper parlance, are instances where the user has done some
> > intermediate merge step in his workspace, but then hasn't cleaned up
> > after himself by collapsing the SCCS delta or hg changeset.
> >
> > If the user puts back the file, there are no unmerged sections in the
> > body of the file (which are what you'd expect if there were any
> > "rejected hunks"), but the gate's revision history will show swilly
> > entries where the user was hacking around in his own workspace.  Over
> > time, this makes the gate's history illegible.
> >
> >> How about another cdm question:  What will be the equivalent of "wx 
> >> putback"
> >> for internal ON/NV developers?  Or is this simply a naked "hg commit"?
> >
> > Yep.
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Think about it.
> 
> "hg commit" would be the equivalent of a wx delget.
> "hg push" would be the equivalent of putback.

Doh!  I read his "commit" and saw "push."

I'll plead scm-disease from having used cvs earlier today, and leave
it at that.  ;-}

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