On 4/17/07, Martin Pool <<a href="mailto:mbp@sourcefrog.net">mbp@sourcefrog.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > Longer term, I'm reconsidering the decision to call them "Repositories". >  At the time I suggested it, I don't think anyone realized it was > becoming an ambiguous term.  Perhaps "Archive" would be better, at least > for the user-visible "Shared Repository".  Because Archive doesn't mean > anything to darcs/git/hg/svn/cvs users, it leaves us free to define it. >  (And the term is a good match for Arch users, if any are left.) "Shared repository" tends to mislead people into thinking it means "shared between users", because we do at least informally refer to shared branches being used that way.  Maybe "library" would be a good term. </blockquote></div>more ideas: * branch-store * store In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany" title="Botany">botany</a>, trunk refers to the main structural member of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree" title="Tree"> tree</a> that is supported by and directly attached to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root" title="Root">roots</a> and which in turn supports the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch" title="Branch">branches </a>. The trunk is also often called the bole. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_%28botany%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_%28botany%29</a> * trunk    (as it is the parent of branches,  but I know of coarse it could be misleading for svn users) * bole    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bole_%28botany%29" title="Bole (botany)">bole (botany)</a>, that part of the trunk of a tree beneath the point where branching commences.   * vault    strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc. -- I don't trust a Revision Control System with less than 5900 unit tests.