From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 20:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref
Message-ID: <7v8v1fv52c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <51DC723F.2000602@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> <bikeshed>
> The name "--lockref" is OK, but for me it's less a question of
> "locking", because as far as the user is concerned the push is an atomic
> operation so there is no sense of a "lock" that is being held for a
> finite period of time.

Yeah, I think this is more like "taking a lease".