[PATCH] hgwatchman: new experimental extension

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Tue Feb 23 22:44:14 UTC 2016


Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> writes:

> Siddharth Agarwal <sid at less-broken.com> writes:
>
>> On 2/23/16 14:24, Sean Farley wrote:
>>> I completely fail to see how that will help the user asking those
>>> questions. Why wouldn't they ask if hgwatchman isn't enough? I don't
>>> believe keeping a redundant two letters is needed nor will help these
>>> already confused users.
>>
>> Because 'hgwatchman' makes it plainly obvious that this is the 
>> integration layer between hg and watchman, not the watchman tool itself.
>
> You're reading users minds now? Come on, the same argument can be made
> the other way.
>
>> (I'm going to bow out of this discussion because I think I've made my 
>> point.)
>
> Ok but I fail to be convinced.

This sounded more absolute than I intended. Sorry about that, trying to
type three things at once did that for me. What I meant was more of:

I want to be convinced but am currently not. At the end of the day,
while I do feel strongly about this issue, I realize that I will
probably be out voted. Not a big deal.



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