On Wednesday 2006 November 15 09:59, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > * Don't use the name "origin" twice. In fact, don't use it at all. In > > a distributed system there is no such thing as a true origin. > > The remote 'origin' is true origin of the repository: it is repository > we cloned this repository from. But that is not necessarily /the/ original, and "origin" is the absolute reference in maths. It doesn't bother me that much I suppose, it's just that as far as unambiguous names go, I'm not wild about it - it's got too many "central repository" connotations, which is of course anathema to git. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html