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

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/2/24, Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>:
> Hello All,
>
> Today there was a lenghty discussion caused by confusion whether stand-alone
> branch has a repository or not. Ie. whether the place where stand-alone
> branch stores revision data is called a repository or not.
>
> In user level descriptions, we would like to not call it that, but:
> - The object representing that place is called a repository in the code and
>   thus it's also called it that way in technical discussions.
> - Users are likely to expect 'repository' to mean 'where revision data live',
>   which is not exactly it, because that includes the stand-alone branch.
>
> Therefore I proposed that the user-level concept should be renamed.
> JBlack suggested the term "basket". So the command would be 'make-basket'
> instead of 'make-repository' and all documentation would talk about baskets
> rather than repositories.

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.

regards,
erik