[Therion] Revise command: how to remove persons later on

[Duncan Collis]

The Therion Book mentions the following option for the survey object:

person-rename <old name> <new name>
Rename a person whose name has been changed.

I always assumed that this was what would be used in situations where
someone's name changed or needed to be corrected, but have never tried
using it. If it doesn't do what the 'merge' command proposed above
would do, then what does it do?

Duncan.

On 06/03/2017, Bruce Mutton via Therion <therion at speleo.sk> wrote:
>> I'm not sure that the progranm should be growing features to cater for
> data revision without actually revising the data.
>
> I agree with the sentiment that we should resist 'feature bloat', however
> Therion already has a 'revise' capability.  I do not understand it well, and
> that has been frustrating over time, as there have been more circumstances
> that I have not been able to get revise to work, than vise-versa.
>
> I like the idea of the ability to 'equate' or 'merge' names (maybe
> 'merge-name' as 'merge' is perhaps too generic a term) and to be able to
> revise a dataset at compile time to remove names.  I image there are valid
> reasons to want to do this.
>
> Bruce
>
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