From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:52:34 GMT Subject: Re: [Terminology] Push vs. upload? Message-ID: <20050921165234.GD21971@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:59:15AM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds told me that... > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > 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' > > Well, I actually called it "send" as in "git-send-pack". > > But anybody who has ever used BK would still type "push", so I'd make that > an alias anyway. > > 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. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.