From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
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 20:58:13 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4625DDA5.60503@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704180840100.4684@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
Julian Phillips wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I find that bury is more natural than float (thinking of a stack of
> documents on a desk ...). But then I don't use stg ...
>
You demonstrate my point :) by apparently missing that "bury" and
"float" are supposed to be the *opposite* of each other.
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-18 8:58 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
2007-04-18 7:41 ` Julian Phillips
2007-04-18 8:58 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
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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