From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:10:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink. Message-ID: <7vlkgqlezn.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: "Catalin Marinas" writes: > On 17/04/07, Sam Vilain wrote: >> Yann Dirson wrote: >> > This is the rewrite in python of by stg-sink written in perl. >> > >> > I changed the name to "bury" since it seems more descriptive of what >> > it does, despite being less of an opposite to "float" than "sink" was. >> >> 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.