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

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:15:57 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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, however, think it's better than 'repository' for the very same reason.
It's better to have a term that does not tell me anything, so I look at the
description and accept anything there, than a term for which I have
misleading intuitive idea.

> > 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.

I still think misleading terminology is worse. And I still am not convinced
that 'repository' is not misleading in this particular context.

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