Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] Introduce "double conversion during merge" more gradually

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 1, 2010, 17:05 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <D2F8C67C-F7AE-4523-870F-879B741C2591@gmail.com>

Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 1. juli 2010, at 18:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> >> Am 7/1/2010 11:09, schrieb Eyvind Bernhardsen:
>>>
>>>> +core.mergePrefilter::
>>> 
>>> BTW, any particular reason that this is in the core namespace rather than
>>> merge namespace? It could be merge.prefilter.
>> 
>> Good point.
>> 
>> 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' ;-) ?

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