Re: Magit-inspired Emacs interface for Sapling (sl)

Stéphane Marks <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> swithin chan <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > I can make vc-el a standalone package. Maybe Just give me some time.
>>
>> It doesn't have to be, it seems totally fair to have vc-sl depend on sl.
>> I am just wondering it wouldn't make sense to rename the sl (or both?)
>> package to sapling.
>>
>
> +1
>
> In the facebook source code, sapling is called sapling.  The unfortunately
> named sl command line command is named sl but lives in the eden/scm
> directory.  If it had been me, I'd have named the command sapling and
> recommended shell aliases if that's what people wanted rather than
> interfering with 50+ years of people aliasing "sl" to "ls" (ls was named in
> 1969, long before facebookers).

But we should keep in mind that there is precedence for calling the VC
backend after the command and not the name of the project, as with vc-hg
instead of vc-mercurial.