From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] --seed as an alias for --dissociate --reference Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 01:53:14 +0200 Message-ID: <5562646A.1080608@alum.mit.edu> References: <20150521041435.GA18978@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 25 01:59:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ywfo1-000802-Q1 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2015 01:59:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751420AbbEXXxa (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2015 19:53:30 -0400 Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu ([18.7.68.13]:42448 "EHLO alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354AbbEXXxa (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 May 2015 19:53:30 -0400 X-AuditID: 1207440d-f79026d000000bad-38-5562646d41b8 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by alum-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 39.50.02989.D6462655; Sun, 24 May 2015 19:53:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.69.130] (p5DDB1007.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.219.16.7]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as mhagger@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id t4ONrFAx022543 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 24 May 2015 19:53:16 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <20150521041435.GA18978@peff.net> X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFupnleLIzCtJLcpLzFFi42IRYndR1M1NSQo1mHdd3qLrSjeTRUPvFWaL Hy09zA7MHs969zB6XLyk7PF5k1wAcxS3TVJiSVlwZnqevl0Cd8bBz7fZCp5xVOy5fYilgfEL WxcjJ4eEgInE5yl3oGwxiQv31gPZXBxCApcZJW50bmWGcM4ySXw+N4cZpIpXQFti44oNLF2M HBwsAqoSh6eagITZBHQlFvU0M4GERQWCJF6/zIWoFpQ4OfMJC4gtImAkcePDN7BdzAJqEoeW PGIEsYUFfCTmbz4HNl0IaMzsN1/BbE4BPYktd9cyQdSrS/yZd4kZwpaXaN46m3kCo8AsJCtm ISmbhaRsASPzKka5xJzSXN3cxMyc4tRk3eLkxLy81CJdI73czBK91JTSTYyQwOXdwfh/ncwh RgEORiUe3gUGiaFCrIllxZW5hxglOZiURHmv2yeFCvEl5adUZiQWZ8QXleakFh9ilOBgVhLh jYoGyvGmJFZWpRblw6SkOViUxHnVlqj7CQmkJ5akZqemFqQWwWRlODiUJHgnJQE1ChalpqdW pGXmlCCkmTg4QYZzSYkUp+alpBYllpZkxIPiNL4YGKkgKR6gveLJIHuLCxJzgaIQracYFaXE eXeDzBUASWSU5sGNhaWjV4ziQF8K8waDtPMAUxlc9yugwUxAg680J4IMLklESEk1MFqwc7Kd cN83zdL35ZwOjdyZJ9uzHL/zzj3glcdSnPSm8H2Z0Cem5kUnLwjLfAjN/KiY81bE7thdpv6j LUnCOqtePnSIl+uZUKsZdevSEZcyn3N/9HafOr/t7YmVetGTV/IfObN8fV/cyQvv Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thanks for working on this. I have one little bikeshedding comment... On 05/21/2015 06:14 AM, Jeff King wrote: > [...] > There are a few open issues with this series: > > 1. Assuming that "seed" is a reasonable verb for this concept, is > "--seed=" OK for the option? Would "--seed-from=" be > better? (Also, the response "bleh, seed is a terrible name" is > fine, too, but only if accompanied by your own suggestion :) ). I think "seed" is a pretty good name. The only downside is that "seed" suggests that the process injects just a few seeds that are much smaller than the whole. But in fact, (hopefully) this option causes the bulk of the needed objects to be pre-fetched. I can't think of any name that is clearly better. Some brainstorming: * prepare -- meh * prime (as in "prime the pump"). But "prime" alone could have too many meanings, so... * prime-from * pre-fetch or pre-fetch-from * pre-load or pre-load-from BTW I think "--seed-from=" is more self-explanatory than "--seed=". Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu