Folks,
Let's please not bother with this discussion until we're writing the
feature. It's far enough away that any conclusion we come to now will
only be revisited later. There _have_ to be more productive things we
can do with our time right now :-).
-K
leif.eriksen@hpa.com.au writes:
> What about "commentary". Better known then etiology, with connotations of
> analysis and blame/praise
>
> Leif Eriksen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Yap [mailto:yap_noel@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 12:07
> To: Sander Striker; dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: annotate vs blame
>
>
> --- Sander Striker <striker@apache.org> wrote:
> > First off I'm close -0 (leaning towards -1) on
> > "annotate"
> > being used at all (even as an alias). To annotate
> > something
> > means to attach some comment/remarks to something in
> > my mind.
> > I bet newcomers to version control systems would
> > have the same.
> > That CVS or ClearCase use this term is wrong(tm) ;)
>
> Yeah, I'm getting there, too. I'd even sacrifice the
> CVS transitioning for an "annotate" that really does
> annotate like you say below.
>
> > "blame" is good IMO, since you can clearly find out
> > who to
> > blame for a change. "who" would be better since it
> > doesn't
> > have a negative (or positive) tone.
>
> I prefer "who" over blame. OTOH, it doesn't fully
> describe the functionality. IMHO, "etiology" and
> "analyze" do a much better job of this.
>
> > I would very much like to see if we can actually
> > implement
> > a true "annotate" subcommand later in the game,
> > which does
> > what it means ;)
>
> I'm starting to feel the same.
>
> Noel
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