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

Wouter van Heyst larstiq at larstiq.dyndns.org
Tue Feb 28 08:39:36 GMT 2006


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:13:03PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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?

This jives with the svn way, where you may have 

    http://host/svn/repository/
        trunk/
            foo/
        branches/
            issue10/
            personx/
        tags/
            0.38/
            0.39/

which to me very much looks like how bzr repositories will work.

Wouter van Heyst




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