From: Julian Phillips Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:41:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4625874E.5040505@vilain.net> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Sam Vilain wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> 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. >> > > Sure... and from my own perspective as a user, I didn't even realise > what float did until now, and was surprised that "bury" would mean that. > The metaphor is a stack, not a pool or a sandpit. I don't think those > terms really assist in understanding, however cute they are. I find that bury is more natural than float (thinking of a stack of documents on a desk ...). But then I don't use stg ... -- Julian --- Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.