Re: [Terminology] Push vs. upload?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 21, 2005, 16:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20050921165234.GD21971@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509191858020.2553@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:59:15AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...

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> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> > Yes, but I'm just arguing about the naming - if you just take the word
> > "pull", "push" is the obvious opposite to that and vice versa, so if we
> > are going to use words "pull" and "push" in the same context, this
> > relation should be preserved. So "push" really _should_ mean
> > 
> > 	ssh other-end 'git-pull'
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> Well, I actually called it "send" as in "git-send-pack".
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> But anybody who has ever used BK would still type "push", so I'd make that 
> an alias anyway.
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> Not "upload". Upload is the reverse of "download", and we don't do that.

All right, now I agree that "upload" isn't that appropriate, since git-ssh-upload isn't actually for any push-related activity, even though it is a git-ssh-fetch counterpart - it is so in a different sense.

I don't want to name it cg-send because I think that would be way too easily confused with sending patches over e-mail. So it ended up being cg-push again. :-)

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