From: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:14:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: rework the descriptions of rename and copy operations
Message-ID: <ad20099a-918d-4c37-8d5c-20c3f491728a@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <be91f3ad9305366c1385c2da4881537e@manjaro.org>

On 18-feb-2024 21:38:54, Dragan Simic wrote:

> Regarding the branch copy and rename operations and their argument
> names, perhaps the following would be a good choice:
> 
>     --copy [<branch>] <destination>
>     --move [<branch>] <destination>
> 
> It would clearly reflect the nature of the performed operations, while
> still using "<branch>" consistently, this time to refer to the source
> branch.  Using "<destination>" to select the destination name should
> be pretty much self-descriptive, if you agree.

Sorry, but I don't.  Actually, I don't see the logic with <destination>.

I appreciate your efforts to provide consistency, but the current ones
seem better options to me: either <oldbranch> and <newbranch>, or the
shortened ones: <old> and <new>.

Thanks.