Bikeshedding is a good thing when the homeowners' association has policies
regarding paint colors. (If I may be so bold as to torture that analogy
completely.) It was surprisingly difficult to choose a new option name that
fit, but the exercise was a good one to endure.
Greg Stein wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> Sorry.. didn't mean to bikeshed too hard on this, but I seem to recall
> that (during my time away) there was a groundswell against --force. I
> was echoing that, along with my own kneejerk against it.
>
> Thanks for reflecting on it, and switching over.
>
> Cheers,
> -g
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:44, C. Michael Pilato<cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> Okay. Went with --allow-non-empty instead.
>>
>> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> Fair 'nuff. Will choose a new option name after lunch.
>>>
>>> Greg Stein wrote:
>>>> Didn't we already go through the discussion of "don't use --force
>>>> anymore" ?? ie. use a more descriptive option like
>>>> --overwrite-exist-revisions ?
>>>>
>>>> The name --force is not descriptive of what it actually does. Which
>>>> means we need all kinds of supporting documentation to detail it. But
>>>> if somebody doesn't read the documentation and uses --force according
>>>> to an assumption of *another* meaning... they could run into
>>>> unexpected and disastrous results.
>>>>
>>>> For the few cases where something like this would be needed, I have no
>>>> qualms making people type a long option name.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -g
>>
>> --
>> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>>
>>
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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