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Re: [Terminology] Push vs. upload?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 20, 2005, 01:59 UTC
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> 
> Yes, but I'm just arguing about the naming - if you just take the word
> "pull", "push" is the obvious opposite to that and vice versa, so if we
> are going to use words "pull" and "push" in the same context, this
> relation should be preserved. So "push" really _should_ mean
> 
> 	ssh other-end 'git-pull'
Well, I actually called it "send" as in "git-send-pack".

But anybody who has ever used BK would still type "push", so I'd make that an alias anyway.

Not "upload". Upload is the reverse of "download", and we don't do that.
		Linus
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