[TERMINOLOGY] rename "changesets" to "revision bundles"

[John Arbash Meinel]

James Blackwell wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:56:24AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:


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>> But I think you're implying that we shouldn't use names that will be
>> shortened, and I don't think that's so.  Everyone knows that a tv is a
>> "television set", that a fridge is a "refrigerator".
> 
> Heh. I didn't mean to imply that a long name shouldn't be used just
> because it'll inevitably be shortened anyways. I meant it more in the
> context of "what will it get shortened to", i.e., predicting what the
> future term will become.
> 
> One of the likely shortening prospects for "revision-bundle" is "bundle".
> That would be a good way to fall right into a lap of a term that JAM
> doesn't care a whole lot for.

Actually, I don't mind calling them 'bundle'. Just that the command 'bzr
bundle' sounds confusing, because it sounds like you mean the verb, when
you really mean more the noun.
However, if the command name was really "bzr make-revision-bundle" and
it just had an alias "bzr bundle", that might be okay.


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>> I don't think calling them "revsets" will prevent shortening.  By
>> analogy with "changeset -> cset", they'd probably be called "rsets".
>>
> 

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> 
> What do you think about revpack? 

I probably prefer 'revset' to 'revpack'.

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> That was something I learned from Tom -- That it's ok to take a unrelated
> term that provides a strong metaphor. Sometimes even that much isn't
> necessary:
> 
>    I looked for a recursive acronym for Something Is Not UNIX. And I tried
>    all 26 letters and discovered that none of them was a word. I decided
>    to make it a contraction. That way I could have a three-letter acronym,
>    for Something's Not UNIX. And I tried letters, and I came across the
>    word "GNU." That was it. 
>                    - RMS, Free as in Freedom.
> 

Thanks for the quote. I had never heard the background to GNU.
John
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