From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:13:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] Introduce "double conversion during merge" more gradually
Message-ID: <2B6AD816-8BF8-4778-A5AD-D31DA154E8F5@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3iq4znnfr.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 1. juli 2010, at 19.05, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 1. juli 2010, at 18:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Somehow to me "prefilter" does not sound to convey what really is going on
>>> here, though.
>> 
>> "Doubleconvert" doesn't really mean anything either though, and
>> "convert" and "normalise" are too generic. I think the problem is
>> that there's no existing name for what convert.c does.
>> 
>> I chose "filter" because of the filter property; the crlf and ident
>> things can be regarded as built-in filters.  -- Eyvind
> 
> What about `merge.renormalize' ;-) ?

I like it, but it's still a bit generic.  "merge.renormalizeContent", perhaps?
-- 
Eyvind