From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
To: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Rename "bury" back to "sink".
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 13:35:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505173547.GA3540@pe.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070505131352.GB3379@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2007-05-05 00:53:03 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > Well, it looks like the voices we heard on this naming issue were
> > quite equally cast towards each of the 2 name.
> >
> > Let my vote be to get back to "sink", so the user can easily pair
> > the command with "float". I expect that any previously-silent
> > majoity prefering "bury" will talk now, before Catalin decides if he
> > wants this patch in the next release :)
>
> Well, my vote is still for "sink"! If it is to be called "stg bury",
> I'd have to vote for changing "stg float" to "stg unearth". :-)
Just my 2.5 cents:
float/sink are clearly related, while I wouldn't associate float/bury
at all. Also, "bury" is sometimes euphemistic for "kill", so
bury/resurrect is a clear pair. Anyway, "sink" makes perfect sense to
me.
-chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-04 22:53 [RFC PATCH] Rename "bury" back to "sink" Yann Dirson
2007-05-04 23:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-05 20:13 ` Yann Dirson
2007-05-06 10:49 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-13 18:28 ` David Kågedal
2007-05-13 19:06 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-05 13:13 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-05 17:35 ` Chris Shoemaker [this message]
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