From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:33:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
Message-ID: <200611151033.57415.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ejeocl$vrj$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wednesday 2006 November 15 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> >  * Don't use the name "origin" twice.  In fact, don't use it at all.  In
> > a distributed system there is no such thing as a true origin.
>
> The remote 'origin' is true origin of the repository: it is repository
> we cloned this repository from.

But that is not necessarily /the/ original, and "origin" is the absolute 
reference in maths.  It doesn't bother me that much I suppose, it's just that 
as far as unambiguous names go, I'm not wild about it - it's got too 
many "central repository" connotations, which is of course anathema to git.


Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE