On Di, 2008-06-24 at 19:21 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> On 24/06/2008, at 4:41 PM, Samuel Murray (Groenkloof) wrote:
> 
> > G'day everyone
> >
> > Allow me to run another idea by you.  When a user has rights to upload
> > files to Pootle, he has two options, "merge" and "overwrite".  I
> > initially made a mistake thinking that these terms mean "merge  
> > strings"
> > and "overwrite strings", but in fact they have nothing to do with
> > strings.  They relate to files.
> >
> > Now, to help prevent a new user from uploading a completely wrong file
> > with the "overwrite" option, how about renaming those two options as
> > follows:
> >
> > merge = merge with file
> > overwrite = replace file
> 
> I don't know that this would make any difference, Samuel. "Merge" and  
> "Overwrite" are fairly obvious. The very real risk of overwriting the  
> wrong file will exist regardless of what we call these functions.
> 
> Now, "Backup and overwrite" could be very reassuring. ;)
> 
> from Clytie

With the current version control integration, I guess that is already a
good way of doing a backup.

Friedel


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