[RFC] Proposed plugins to bundle for 2.0

[John Szakmeister]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Martin Pool<mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Ali Sabil <ali.sabil at gmail.com>:
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>> What do you think about renaming bzr-rebase to bzr-rewrite or
>> bzr-history-rewrite in the process, and including more history
>> manipulation commands ?
>
> Well, if it was merged, it wouldn't have a name at all, it would just
> be some commands within bzr.  Maybe they should be called
> rewrite-history, it perhaps is a more obvious name in some regards.

Once you understand that it's plucking your revisions and
re-targetting to be based on a different revision, I think "rebase" as
a command name makes quite a bit of sense.  rewrite-history seems
slightly more vague to me.

> However, if we want to make faster progress on this I think we should
> avoid unnecessarily entangling renaming commands with merging what
> already exists with making a 2.0 release.  If the names or the code
> quality are such that merging them would be worse than the problem it
> solves, let's have a bug documenting what needs to be done.

Completely agree.

-John