From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:56:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Use --find- instead of --detect- as prefix for long forms of -M and -C. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7884E3F5-D622-49E2-BEBE-12936F388C30@sb.org> Kevin Ballard writes: > I'm not sure I like the wording --find-copies and --find-renames. Maybe I'm > just being silly, but it sounds like those are directives, saying "I want you > to find copies/renames", as opposed to just saying "while you're working you > should also detect copies/renames". The original flag --find-copies-harder > is a bit different, because it's modifying the action of finding copies > rather than making finding copies the prime directive. > > On the other hand, --detect-copies and --detect-renames sounds to me like > you're just telling it that it should, well, detect copies/renames as it goes > about its business. I agree. The current names are better than the proposed names. [For the reasons you state.] -Miles -- The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic. [James Marston Fitch, New York Times, 1 May 1960]