From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:12:37 GMT
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
Message-ID: <85prxw253u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20071126185600.GA25784@efreet.light.src>

Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 18:10:10 +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>> On Nov 26, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Andy Parkins wrote:
>> While we're discussing bad names, as someone already pointed out, I agree 
>> it's sad that "git push" is almost always understood as being the opposite 
>> of "git pull".
>
> Well, it is an oposite of pull. Compared to it, it is limited in that it will
> not do a merge and on the other hand extended to *also* be an oposite of
> fetch, but still oposite of pull is push.

With the same reasoning the opposite of a duck is a lobster, since a
lobster has not only fewer wings, but also more legs.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum