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* Another VC terminology change?
@ 2007-10-11 14:30 Eric S. Raymond
  2007-10-11 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Eric S. Raymond @ 2007-10-11 14:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

I note, in files.texi:

    The terms ``checkin'' and ``checkout'' are associated with file-based
    and locking-based systems and a bit archaic; nowadays those operations
    are usually called ``commit'' and ``update''.

Since I've had to take a big hammer to VC's terminology anyway to clean up the
inconsistencies Stefan pointed out, I'm thinking now might be a good time
for me to go further and change these.

The argument against, of course, is that users are accustomed to these
terms.  They're embedded in VC because when I originally wrote it SCCS
and RCS were the only games in town[1] and these are the terms they used.

The argument for is that 'commit' and 'update' are a better match for the
terms CVS introduced and every subsequent VCS we're interested in has pretty
much retained.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

[1] Actually, CVS was in use at a university somewhere, but it didn't hit 
the big time til a few years after I wrote VC.

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2007-10-11 14:30 Another VC terminology change? Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 18:05   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-11 20:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 20:19       ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12  1:06         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12  0:45   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12  1:08     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 15:23       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 16:25         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 16:47           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-12 17:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-12 21:28               ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-13  3:36                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-11 17:50   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12  8:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-12 15:59     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 20:02       ` Miles Bader
2007-10-13  6:41         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-14 21:42           ` Juri Linkov
2007-10-15 16:03             ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-15 17:42               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-15 21:37                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-18 20:08                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-19 21:42                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-21  7:27                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12  8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii

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