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

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:42:34AM -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
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> > I refer to 'shared repositories' to talk about repositories which are a
> > parent directory of many branches, and those branches have no repository
> > co-located at their directory.
> 
> Yes. We all agree with this. The problem is that we're using the term
> 'repository' which is incompatible with the CVS/SVN world. There's two
> ways to deal with this. 
> 
>  1. We not rename anything. CVS/SVN get confused because standalone
>     branches have repositories and the thing that they're used to thinking
>     is a repository is now called a 'shared repository'.
> 
>  2. We rename 'shared repositories' into 'repositories'. This means that
>     there is a need to come up with a name for what we currently call
>     repositories. I'm in favor of this option.
> 
>  3. We rename shared repositories into something else. This seems to be
>     the method that Jan is in favor of.

4. Eliminate the difference.

Wouter van Heyst