Re: [PATCH] Add "stg bury" command, with the functionnality of contrib/stg-sink.

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2007, 09:37 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0704210237k1d91a5a9tc3a5aa54d5a8772e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070419085924.GA21936@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 19/04/07, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

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> On 2007-04-18 22:35:02 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> > But if the consensus is that "sink" or something else sounds better,
> > I have myself no objection to bury "bury" :)
>
> I think that "sink" is by far the best word for it, especially when
> paired with "float". (The only problem is that "stg series" prints the
> stack with the bottom on top and the top at the bottom, but that's old
> weirdness. :-)

That's coming from quilt, I didn't spend much time on designing the user interface (this is something to be done post 1.0). However, on the CPUs I work the stack grows downwards but the top/bottom naming is the opposite of StGIT one.

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Catalin