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

On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 10:47 AM Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Of course, and probably should not have been that way.  The command names
are less important than the underlying product name (and command names can
change and be wrapped or called something else entirely over time).