Re: Branch/tag/copy terminology

Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> You wrote:
>
>> it makes sense to refer to a file copy as a branch as well). 'Copy'
>> would be a better word for the file context menu. For the folder
>> context menu, we could use 'Branch/Tag/Copy' which would avoid the
>> occasional question we get about 'how do I make a copy?', although
>> it would make the context menu entry longer.
>
> IMHO the context menu entry could be just 'Copy' all the time. The
> caption 'Copy (Branch/Tag)' is already used in the following dialog
> for clarification. Our right drag handler also only says 'SVN copy
> ...' for all dragged items and not 'svn copy (branch/tag)' :)
>
> Just my $0.02

If you remember the discussions we had in the starting days of TSVN:
Simply "Copy" doesn't work for most users because they don't know that a
branch/tag is made by using the copy command.
And no, they also don't read the docs...

Stefan

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