[Monotone-devel] Re: pluck problem

[Graydon Hoare]

Craig Lennox wrote:

> I've been playing with 'mtn pluck' for a bit and in general I like it.
> To me the name is not quite apt, because when you pluck something, it
> no longer exists in the place you plucked it from.  I might have
> called it something like 'mimic'.  Though that's probably not much
> improvement in the stodginess department.  FWIW, arch's command to do
> roughly the same thing (plus some metadata bookkeeping) is called
> 'replay'.

Yeah, "mimic" and "replay" sound nicer to me. We also ran across "adapt" 
and "imitate" on IRC. I'd be fine with any of those I think.

-graydon