Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Use --find- instead of --detect- as prefix for long forms of -M and -C.

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Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> 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

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