Getting Started with Bazaar presentation updated (and ready forthe masses)
John Yates
jyates at netezza.com
Tue Oct 16 22:01:30 BST 2007
Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Yeah, I'd be happy with some friendier term for "merge directive".
There really are only two meaningful ways for upstream to incorporate work:
1) apply a patch
2) perform a merge
When talking email a newbie most likely imagines a patch-based model.
The presence of the word _merge_ underscores the semantic difference in what bzr can accomplish. I think that it is the imperative connotation -- "Do this!" -- of the term _directive_ that this a bit off-putting. The recipient of an MD actually has full leave to merge or not has she chooses.
So maybe something like "merge packet" might be more palatable.
/john
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