bazaar-ng news

[Garrett Rooney]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:52 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 
> 
>>Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
>>| On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:49 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>>| all unix users.  If I may make a suggestion, I would say make rename and
>>| move be synonyms.  That way, people from unix backgrounds will use move
>>| for everything, and people from other backgrounds will use move to move
>>| and rename to rename.
>>
>>I tend to agree.  While it's true that an RCS cares whether an operation
>>is a move or a rename, I don't think users should have to care.  Unless
>>there's some further issue I'm not seeing.
>>
> 
> I agree also; I think everybody (including myself) will keep having to
> refer to the documentation to find out which of the two commands can do
> both a move and a rename ... and it's not the obvious one.
> 
> I think svn gets this right, having an mv and ren command that are just
> aliases for the same "do what I mean" command.

Agreed.  One command good, two commands bad.

-garrett