From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:28:56 +0100 Message-ID: <200611151128.57917.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <87k61yt1x2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <200611151033.57415.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20061115104858.GG5453@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Jw2CyeJ789RmvWigFtPhSwDdWr/uVlvrN0NlnXFUDFVFctiZ8oJKdQTQS8GcU1PgBElWHSmvmh69DRYk373/FoLfPBcFPULZZ37uHMqotqV6zWfnaBIVW6JyktZEUFeUw75NjbR4+QuQM7sPOLeafPkP1P+yPrLyUL5MOEGPH/4= User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <20061115104858.GG5453@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkIx2-0005KI-HI for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:29:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030391AbWKOL3E convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:29:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030395AbWKOL3E (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:29:04 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:29304 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030391AbWKOL3D convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:29:03 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so103956ugc for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.103.7 with SMTP id f7mr1536456ugm.1163590141906; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e34sm713415ugd.2006.11.15.03.29.01; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:29:01 -0800 (PST) To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 2006 November 15 10:48, Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote: > To me, "origin" just means "where > originated". If you think of it that way, it's perfectly obvious that > each repository can have its own origin. Of course. I wasn't saying that I didn't understand why origin was cho= sen. =20 It's not a completely crazy name - it does have /a/ meaning. However, = it's=20 not an unambiguous meaning. What if the repository I clone was itself = a=20 clone? What if the repository it cloned was pulling from three other=20 repositories? What if those three repositories pull/push from/to each = other? * -- * -- * \ | / \ \ | / / \ | / /=20 * / | /=20 | / * <--- "origin" | * <--- cloned repository The name "origin" is too close to having an "ultimate source" feel to i= t IMO. =20 In a distributed system, it's not the right idea to be pushing. After = the=20 clone is complete, the "origin" is no more special than any other repos= itory,=20 and if you felt like it you could change the URL for "origin" and it wo= uld=20 make very little difference to you. In short: I don't think "origin" is wrong, I just think it's not right. Andy --=20 Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE