From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:49:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.
Message-ID: <4625874E.5040505@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkgqlezn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> 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.