From: Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:02:19 GMT
Subject: RFC: s/git-merge-base/git-find-common-ancestor/g
Message-ID: <874q8s6q9w.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>
In-Reply-To: <7virxbtder.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

At Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:14:52 -0700,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The "master" branch post 0.99.6 already has the renamed tools
> with backward compatibility symlinks.  I'll be sending a
> patch to address an issue raised by some people separately to
> see what the list thinks, and also will attempt to send out a
> patch for the Pasky and Catalin heads later this week.  Also
> I'll remove the ancient backward compatible environment variable
> names from gitenv.c.

everything seems very consistent indeed, except one command:

   git-merge-base

I've already got used to it. but, at first, the name gave me the
impression that it merge the current branch with given base point.

the current documentation says:

   Finds as good a common ancestor as possible for a merge

so would it be better to rename it to:

   git-find-common-ancestor

That's what the command does after all.
--
         yashi