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

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:38:59 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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.

Except that they are NOT repositories. Or rather, they are special kind of
repositories. Repository is where revision data are stored (I think that's
the most common definition of that term people will come with). And
'repository'(user-level) is something slightly different -- it is
a collection of branches sharing the 'repository'(code-level) (=
'repository'(per above definition)).

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