[RFI] bzr-keywords & forward compatibility

[Greg Ward]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 3. What's missing? These can be added later and shouldn't break
>   existing keywords, but perhaps looking at additional needs will
>   help us tune the names of current keywords? Some things we
>   might want to add include:
>
>   Nick (or Branch-Nick to be more descriptive?)

Nick is a guy I work with, or someone I knew in high school.  I don't
see what either of them have to do with version control.  ;-)

No, seriously: I get that "nick" is short for "nickname", but that is
a weird convention that, AFAIK, is limited to IRC and Bazaar.  At
least I've never seen it elsewhere.  If you mean "branch", why not
just say ... ummm ... well ... errr ... "branch"?  Same goes for "bzr
log" output.  "Branch-nick: trunk" adds exactly zero value and some
confusion to "Branch: trunk".

Greg