Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Is this name supposed to stand for "dir'n'file",... > ...I personally find the idiomatic name 'path' > easier to grok, however, Junio, of course, has final say-so. If I were presented two identical patches, one calling it "path" and the other calling it "dirnfile", I would definitely take the former, but I agree that this is more of a preference than a taste, the latter of which implies that you could make a value judgement, i.e. "good taste" vs "bad taste". If for some reason we had a code that called a variable "dirnfile" already in our official codebase and we saw a patch to "correct" that to "path", I would likely say that it is not worth the churn to apply such a "correction" patch. If the new name were "pathname", however, I might be pursuaded to take it, simply because a "pathname" is a lot more familiar word than "dirnfile". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html