New submission from Zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Two problems:
1. Many users think that they need to use "darcs remove" to remove a file, much as one is required to use "svn delete/rm/remove" in Subversion. For example, see this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/9403 For another example, as I was considering submitting this bug report I noticed the same kind of thing happening in an exchange on the #darcs IRC channel. A new user was confused as he was trying to use "darcs remove" to get rid of a file. 2. People frequently complain that they tried "darcs move" and it didn't work, since it is named "darcs mv". "darcs mv" is the only darcs command which is a unix-style abbreviation rather than an English phrase. These two problems are linked because the express reason why "darcs mv" is namedly inconsistently with the other commands is to differentiate it from the similar-named but subtly different "darcs remove". So the proposal is to name these commands "darcs unadd" since it is parallel to the other "darcs un*" command and it describes its behavior better (et isn't like "svn remove") -- and "darcs move" since it is consistent with the other namings. Regards, Zooko ---------- messages: 474 nosy: droundy, tommy, zooko status: unread title: proposal: rename mv to move, rename remove to unadd ____________________________________ Darcs issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue127> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list darcs-devel@darcs.net http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
