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Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.

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Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Apr 18, 2007, 02:49 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>>> But 'bury' means to hide or even kill.
>>>
>>> How about "raise" and "lower" ?
>>>       
>> Or "immerse" ("immerge"?) as another opposite of "float" :-)
>>
>> I don't have any opinion on this, it's up to Yann to argue.
>>     
> As a user, to me, 'bury' feels perfect and I am not annoyed by
> the connotation, perhaps maybe I am used to 'bury-buffer' in
> Emacs.
>

Sure... and from my own perspective as a user, I didn't even realise what float did until now, and was surprised that "bury" would mean that. The metaphor is a stack, not a pool or a sandpit. I don't think those terms really assist in understanding, however cute they are.

Sam.
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Message 5 of 14 in “Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.”
  1. Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.Yann Dirson, Apr 10, 2007
  2. Sam VilainApr 17, 2007
  3. Catalin MarinasApr 18, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2007
  5. Sam VilainApr 18, 2007
  6. Julian PhillipsApr 18, 2007
  7. Sam VilainApr 18, 2007
  8. Julian PhillipsApr 18, 2007
  9. Robin RosenbergApr 18, 2007
  10. Yann DirsonApr 18, 2007
  11. Karl HasselströmApr 19, 2007
  12. Catalin MarinasApr 21, 2007
  13. Yann DirsonApr 21, 2007
  14. Karl HasselströmApr 21, 2007

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