[RFC] New name for 'repositories' - 'baskets'

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 17:13:03 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:38:59 +0100, Erik B??gfors wrote:
> > > I just like to add ... that I think basket is a terrible name. I think
> > > we are all going to end up saying "bzr has repositories, but they are
> > > called baskets".  And then it kind of defeats the point.
> 
> ++++++++++ ???
> 
> I haven't read the code that does repositories, and maybe that's a
> good thing, but my intuitive idea of "repository" is a "place where
> there's a bunch of branches". Is that too far off?

No. It's not.

However from what you said, it's not clear whether you think that a
branch is always in a repository or not. And it's rather important
distinction here.

> I think the bar for introducing new terminology should be _very_ high.
> With mercurial and git out there, people aren't going to swallow too
> much bzr-specific learning before they loose interest.

The concept is already introduced. People will be learning of it either
way. The question is whether it is clearer to call that concept
'repository' or something else.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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