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

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On 1. juli 2010, at 18:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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