From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:59:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [Terminology] Push vs. upload?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509191858020.2553@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050920014448.GA30912@pasky.or.cz>



On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> 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