Ok, starting to look at the code.  Should these name changes also apply to the top level buttons, currectly called 'Rest Local' and 'Rest Remote'?
Or, should the bottom buttons reflect that word choice - Local and Remote?

One argument against it is that I usually work off of a local directory - so both are 'local' - but that is an easy fix for my thinking.

-cbc

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb@gmail.com> wrote:


On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:


On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
let's change labels from 'old: ' to 'existing: ', and 'new: ' to 'pending: '.

+1.  'current' is a little shorter than 'existing', 'extant' shorter still, but a little unusual.  But I love 'pending' because it doesn't presuppose age, and sometimes one is merging something older than the existing change.
 
'current' I like (mine is better - unless it isn't - it's just what was there).
'pending' is ok - but I would forget what it means in about a year.  'incoming' is less forgettable.
And the baloon help definitely needs to be updated.

I'm not signing up yet (until I figure out how hard it is), but I would also love to have the two button color-coded to show which code in the diff pane relates to which button.  Same with the author initials/dates.  That would help significantly in reducing the confusion as well.  Not mention let us change the colors - and I right that the red code is the proposed new code, and the blue crossed out code is the code going away? Why those colors?  But that I'll leave for others to debate - if there is any desire.
-chris

Vaidotas
 
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best, Eliot