Subject: RE: New category for revision control tools and programs
To: None <pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Boyer <jasonb@japl.lib.in.us>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 07/14/2006 10:40:51
Would sourcectl or versionctl be better? Vc isn't immediately explanatory
until you've had a look inside of it a couple times. People are familiar
with ctl == control, and source or version makes it pretty easy to piece
together.

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Jason Boyer
Information Technology Specialist
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-pkg-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:tech-pkg-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of Greg Troxel
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:26 AM
> To: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: New category for revision control tools and programs
> 
> 
>   revisioncontrol (rather long)
>   scm (too short)
>   sourcecodemanagement (too long)
>   versioncontrol (rather long, but shorter than the others :) )
> 
> scm is also Scheme, so that's awkward.
> 
> How about
> 
>   vc (for versioncontrol)
> 
> -- 
>         Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
>