Meta: Casual topic `refac` vs `rfct`

[goyalyashpal]

Hi!

kudos for adhering to conventional commits since v0.5. ur changelogs look awesome

One extremely small thing i thought to bring in your notice is that:

• i was initially excited on reading topic name rfct (and also enh)
• 4 letter saving w.r.t refactor
• but as i thought more about it, it's may not be quite clear to peers who are new to git or to software development in general
• it is not obvious what it might stand for, and it's not very speakable either
• what more, it's not even a search keyword: i tried searching for the following. but none of these yield anything about refactor "rfct", "rfct git", "rfct commit message"

while trying to think of different combinations of omissions, i stumbled upon the obvious one: refac

• plain and simple, easy to speak,
• costs 5 letters (same as chore, style) i.e. only one letter more than rfct
• direct abbreviation of the complete word refactor, hence:
  • consistent with other commit topics: feature, performance, enhancement
  • already gives away what it might stand for
  • shows autocomplete suggestions in search box, and
• even when searched directly i.e. without using autocomplete suggestions, the results page contains at least one to three related results....

ecosia search: refac commit | duckduckgo search: refac commit

So what?

umh, nothing much... it's entirely upto you. as i said, i just wanted to discuss this with you - not necessarily aimed at any particular outcome...

it it makes sense to you, then you may choose to use refac in future; but downside to it can be that if doing anything programmatic using commit messages from these past rfct ones - u'll have to consider for both rfct and refac which might be error prone.

but this use-case can be a corner case in and on itself...

what are your thoughts on this?? 😃

[goyalyashpal]

you can close this after reading 😃

[goyalyashpal]

Also,

• what will be your thoughts about Restructuring vs Refactoring as mentioned in this blog RefactoringMalApropism | Martin Fowler
• ... thinking about which, what will be the topic name for "Restructuring" i couldn't think anything smaller than 6 letter...
• Also called "Rewrite" here: commit-in-progress-refac
• struct seems good enough...

123 456 789 012
res tru ctu re
res tru ct
rew rit e

str uct

rst rct
rer yt
rst ct
str ct