continuous is not a good command name

[mdboom]

Particularly with #223, which adds the ability to choose a base that isn't necessarily the direct parent.

I vote for "pairwise" but I'm open to other suggestions.

Cc: @pv, @astrofrog

[astrofrog]

Hmm, I guess that compare would have been a good choice but already taken by the other command with the same name that I wrote 😉

pairwise sounds good, and another suggestion would be diff

[pv]

Or rename compare to diff (which is also the unix command doing the same thing) and then rename continuous to compare?

[jorisvandenbossche]

More a question (but asking here instead of in a new issue), but what is actually the difference between continuous and compare? As, for me, this is not fully clear from the docs.
OK, there are some different arguments (continuous supports selecting benchmarks with -b while compare not, continuous also supports specifying branches while compare only commits), but what is the supposed difference from a higher level?

[pv]

Continuous runs the benchmarks, compare uses existing results.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Aha, that's a big difference :-)
When I now read the docs again ("Compare two sets of results"), this is indeed what is said there, but maybe this can be put a bit more explicit.