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

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/2/28, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>:
> On 2/28/06, Jan Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:38:59 +0100, Erik Bågfors 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?

Nope, that's perfectly right.

The only question is if a stand alone branch includes a repository or
not.  But for shared repositories.  You are right.

What would your intuitive idea of "basket" tell you?  It would tell me
nothing, which is why I think it's a bad name.

> 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.

Exactly.

bzr is already growing into something that can do everything that
cvs/svn can do, and (almost) everything that git/hg can do.  At the
same time. This makes it somewhat more complicated than them.  Let's
not bring new terminology into this and make it a hard to use system.

Regards,
Erik