On February 18, 2019 5:47, Senol Yazici > I just stumbled over following page > > https://git-scm.com/about/distributed > > and was wondering if it is possible to > > - demilitarise that “dictator/lieutenant” thing and > - de-religionise that “blessed” thing > > I did not had the feeling that git is “pro military”, or is against “non > religious” > developers/users.
I think there is a point here. In some of my customers, we have replaced these terms with the following (the Repository is optional in the second two): * Blessed: Repository of Record * Dictator: Committer [Repository] * Lieutenant: Contributor [Repository] This seems more closely aligned with the real roles being applied to activities associated with the repositories involved. Taking a lesson from other Open Source projects, Jenkins has deprecated Master/Slave in favour of Controller/Agent. This seems not only more acceptable to some, but in my view more descriptive. The terms on the page above do not actually make any descriptive sense to a newbie. And confusion could ensue from the dictionary definitions: * Lieutenant: an aide or representative of another in the performance of duty : assistant (not what that repository is for) * Dictator: one holding complete autocratic control : a person with unlimited governmental power (not how the git team behaves) * Blessed: honored in worship : hallowed; of or enjoying happiness (although I can see the happiness part of this one) Regards, Randall
