"Archive" or "Repository"?

Jamie Wilkinson jaq at spacepants.org
Wed Nov 16 02:43:31 GMT 2005


This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:55 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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>> "Repository" is a term used by CVS, SVN, Darcs, Codeville, Monotone,
>> git, SVK, etc.
>> 
>> "Archive" is used by Arch and ArX.
>> 
>> The two terms seem to be roughly equivalent, but "Repository" seems to
>> be more widely-used.  Is there any reason we shouldn't call our Archives
>> Repositories instead?
>
>WorksForMe

+1; but you've been sucking on the wiki pipe too long, Rob.




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