One of the fundamental elements of the design of revision control systems[1] is the assignment of names. We name hackers, projects, branches, revisions, patches, log messages.... We ought to choose our words (our names) with care.
A symmetric topic arose recently in the Scheme world in the context of something called "SRFI-84". Here is my reply: http://dasht-brk.livejournal.com/23779.html?mode=reply -t [1] Those of you who will be at FOSDEM 2006 -- please seek me out and say hello. My talk is titled: Elements of Revision Control -- Designing Arch _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
