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From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Rename "bury" back to "sink".
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 13:35:47 -0400
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On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:13:53PM +0200, Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote:
> On 2007-05-05 00:53:03 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
>=20
> > 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 h=
e
> > wants this patch in the next release :)
>=20
> 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