From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Cc: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>,
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:12:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85prxw253u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071126185600.GA25784@efreet.light.src> (Jan Hudec's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:56:00 +0100")
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 18:10:10 +0100, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>> On Nov 26, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Andy Parkins wrote:
>> While we're discussing bad names, as someone already pointed out, I agree
>> it's sad that "git push" is almost always understood as being the opposite
>> of "git pull".
>
> Well, it is an oposite of pull. Compared to it, it is limited in that it will
> not do a merge and on the other hand extended to *also* be an oposite of
> fetch, but still oposite of pull is push.
With the same reasoning the opposite of a duck is a lobster, since a
lobster has not only fewer wings, but also more legs.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-25 21:48 If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Jakub Narebski
2007-11-25 22:23 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-26 1:28 ` Steven Walter
2007-11-26 6:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 6:36 ` Adam Roben
2007-11-26 15:32 ` Carlos Rica
2007-11-26 16:40 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-11-26 16:46 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-26 17:10 ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-26 18:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:12 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-11-26 19:34 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:50 ` Michael Poole
2007-11-26 20:09 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:31 ` Michael Poole
2007-11-26 20:48 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-26 20:11 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-26 19:25 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-27 1:20 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 1:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-27 1:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 11:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 23:59 ` [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 (was: If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change?) Jakub Narebski
2007-11-28 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-28 15:48 ` Jason Sewall
2007-11-28 23:25 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-28 23:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-29 6:57 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-29 12:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-30 17:50 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-30 18:25 ` Marco Costalba
2007-12-01 2:35 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-12-01 2:53 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-28 13:18 ` [RFC] git-gui USer's Survey 2007 Sergei Organov
2007-11-27 8:45 ` If you would write git from scratch now, what would you change? Andy Parkins
2007-11-27 13:15 ` Marco Costalba
2007-11-27 23:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-27 17:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04 11:00 ` Andy Parkins
2007-11-27 17:33 ` Jing Xue
2007-11-26 16:48 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-26 17:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 19:27 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:11 ` Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-26 20:36 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 19:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 19:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 19:57 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 20:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-26 21:00 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-26 21:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:45 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-11-26 21:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 21:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-26 22:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-27 1:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 3:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 5:10 ` Steven Grimm
2007-11-26 21:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-26 21:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 21:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 14:11 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-27 14:38 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-26 19:18 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 19:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:17 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 20:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 22:02 ` Dana How
2007-11-26 22:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-26 20:17 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-26 20:36 ` Dana How
2007-11-27 1:25 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 5:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-27 1:48 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-27 1:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 2:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-27 11:47 ` C# binding, was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-27 4:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-27 5:59 ` Dana How
2007-11-27 6:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-11-27 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
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