Clarification on some jargon...

John Szakmeister john at szakmeister.net
Wed May 12 03:08:55 BST 2010


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Matthew D. Fuller
<fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:41:23PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Todd A. Jacobs, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> 'bzr init' produces a branch repository,
>
> Urg, please, no.  We have enough terminological confusion going around
> without sending out search teams to discover more.

I had the same reaction.

> init creates a _branch_.  That branch MAY also have a colocated
> working tree, and MAY also have a colocated repository, depending on
> various external factors.  But those are ancillary to its purpose of
> creating a new empty _branch_.

I definitely agree.  That's exactly the way I went about introducing the topic.

Thanks for the feedback!

-John



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