Re: changelist feature in trunk, for toying with

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman <at> red-bean.com> writes:

> I wanted to point out that I've merged my changelist-feature branch to
> trunk, so that you can play around with it now.

I think this is a great feature and one I would use. At the risk of
bikeshedding, I have to say that as a user, I think I would find the name
"changelist" confusing.

Specifically, the changelist (in the currently proposed/implemented design) is
fundamentally *not* a list of changes: it's a list of files. The name "change
list" implies to me that it applies at the level of individual hunk changes, not
at the file-level granularity. In addition, my intuitive guess as to what "svn
changelist foo bar.c baz.h" would do would be to record *the current changes* in
bar.c and baz.h into "foo", not just their names. In addition, "changelist"
sounds very close to the concept of "changeset" from other SCMs which Subversion
basically rolls into "revision".

Obviously reading the documentation would set me straight here; however, I think
that using a name that doesn't actually describe what the feature actually is is
confusing. I think using a name like "file set" or something would be much more
descriptive than "changelist".

--dave

glasser@mit.edu

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Received on Mon Jul 3 23:20:33 2006