From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:55:08 GMT Subject: Re: [Terminology] Push vs. upload? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050920001136.GK18320@pasky.or.cz> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > I've realized today that I "forgot" to rename cg-push to cg-upload, so > I impulsively did so right away, but now I'm seeing that the core git > still has git-push and no git-upload. This is confusing and appears to > be quite inconsistent - push should be the opposite of pull No. There is no opposite of pull. You can't update the tree on the other end. It's fundamentally an unsafe operation - the other end is by definition not a private tree. (Or, if you want to see it another way: "pull" is "pull"s own opposite: "ssh other-end + git pull from that end" ends up being what you mean.) Linus