From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:49:50 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4625874E.5040505@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlkgqlezn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> But 'bury' means to hide or even kill.
>>>
>>> How about "raise" and "lower" ?
>>>
>> Or "immerse" ("immerge"?) as another opposite of "float" :-)
>>
>> I don't have any opinion on this, it's up to Yann to argue.
>>
> As a user, to me, 'bury' feels perfect and I am not annoyed by
> the connotation, perhaps maybe I am used to 'bury-buffer' in
> Emacs.
>
Sure... and from my own perspective as a user, I didn't even realise
what float did until now, and was surprised that "bury" would mean that.
The metaphor is a stack, not a pool or a sandpit. I don't think those
terms really assist in understanding, however cute they are.
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-18 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 18:27 [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink Yann Dirson
2007-04-17 20:42 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18 0:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2007-04-18 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-18 2:49 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-04-18 7:41 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 8:58 ` Sam Vilain
2007-04-18 10:33 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 20:19 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-04-18 20:35 ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-19 8:59 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-21 9:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2007-04-21 10:15 ` Yann Dirson
2007-04-21 11:00 ` Karl Hasselström
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