Re: [PATCH] Copy mergetool "bc3" as "bc4"

From: Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
Date: Oct 20, 2014, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <2D3655AD-CC8C-41C2-B0B7-4803176CFB31@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtx2y3avx.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 20 Oct 2014, at 19:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Perhaps something like this, so that existing users can still use
> "bc3" and other people can use "bc" if it bothers them that they
> have to say "3" when the backend driver works with both 3 and 4?

Thanks for the quick and great feedback. This looks good to me. I used “bc4" just for consistency sake and to preserve backwards compatibility, but introducing “bc” as a generic backend looks indeed as a better approach. It’s even future safe, because it doesn’t prevent introducing bc5 if required later on.

Olivier