"Archive" or "Repository"?

James Blackwell jblack at merconline.com
Wed Nov 16 03:58:25 GMT 2005


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:55:26PM -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> "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?

I like repository.

With a half dozen votes saying "yay!" and no "nay" votes, I'll refer to
the thing that collects branches in the documentation as a repository.

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