From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:15:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.
Message-ID: <20070421101517.GL8507@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0704210237k1d91a5a9tc3a5aa54d5a8772e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:37:49AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 19/04/07, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> >On 2007-04-18 22:35:02 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> >
> >> But if the consensus is that "sink" or something else sounds better,
> >> I have myself no objection to bury "bury" :)
> >
> >I think that "sink" is by far the best word for it, especially when
> >paired with "float". (The only problem is that "stg series" prints the
> >stack with the bottom on top and the top at the bottom, but that's old
> >weirdness. :-)
> 
> That's coming from quilt, I didn't spend much time on designing the
> user interface (this is something to be done post 1.0). However, on
> the CPUs I work the stack grows downwards but the top/bottom naming is
> the opposite of StGIT one.

Anyway, it's been customary to have computer display coordinates to
"grow" from top to bottom, with "0" being the 1st line :)