[POLL] Mass renaming options for consistency + guidelines

[Martin von Zweigbergk]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 19, 2017, at 10:14 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 19, 2017, at 09:11, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I prefer not doing mass renaming that would generate lots of
> "deprecated"
> >>>> config names in use around user hgrc and web documents. But if I had
> to
> >>>> choose one, I would vote for dashes/hyphens.
> >>>
> >>> We could also do what gmail does with email addresses and periods:
> >>> they allow extra periods anywhere (I think). So allowpull and
> >>> allow-pull and all-owpull would be all be the same config option. Just
> >>> a thought; I'm not sure what I think.
> >>
> >> I'm not a fan of ambiguating identifiers. It smells like
> case-insensitive fs,
> >> computer language, etc. that do sometimes surprising.
> >
> > Agreed. I had previously proposed exactly this, but in the intervening
> years I've come to agree with Yuya that it's likely to be more confusing
> than anything in the long run.
>
> So, in reviewing https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D932, it was noted that
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/UIGuideline?action=diff&rev1=10&rev2=11
> concluded that there was a decision, but I don’t see any kind of consensus
> on this thread. Are we comfortable with this as the guidance going forward?
>
> I am, but I wanted to make sure there’s some well-documented consensus of
> the policy change.
>

Me too. Hyphen-separated words sounds good (just repeating that here to
clarify that that is the decision we're talking about).


>
> Thanks!
> Augie
>
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