"revision" considered confusing (was: Outdated Wiki Page?)

[Aaron Bentley]

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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> John Yates wrote:
> This argument seems to ignore the noun form of "revision": A revised or
> new version, as of a book or other written material.  Every time you
> commit, you store a new revision of the code base in the repository.

I also meant point out that your proposed alternative, "commit" is not
normally used as a noun, and so has no meaning.  Whereas the noun form
of "revision" is, in fact, analogous to the VCS term.  If the term
"version" were not already applied to releases of software projects, I
would prefer "version" over "revision" or "commit".

Aaron
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