From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes:
That said, trying to find a good name for that 'third place' is not easy.
It's neither upstream, nor downstream (for Junio - the maintainer special
case - git.git would be his downstream). The me/git repo is like a
ferryman's landing across the other side of the river flow, a safe
harbour
if you will.
You raise a good point here.
To me, the git.git public repository that everybody pulls from is
just like me/git for everybody else. It is a place where you
publish your work. I think the @{push} notation during its design
phase was once called @{publish} instead.
I'd agree that your git/git is actually an @{publish} repo, and to my mind
is a formal 'downstream' for you.
However your gitster/git repo feels like it would match the me/git
viewpoint, in that while it is 'open', it isn't really a formal publishing
place. Certainly I don't think that I 'publish' what's in my personal github
repos, which I use as an open backup (and any PR's I put to the G4W project
repo are referenced from there).
I did have a look at various thesaurus words
(//www.thesaurus.com/browse/repository) that might be usable and found:-
depot, haven, shelter, sanctuary, wharf, bunker, vault, which are all 'near'
but not quite right, if only home-depot wasn't taken I'd suggest that!
A "downstream" that is the opposite of "upstream" is not something
you would configure and control. They are those who call you
"upstream". You know and actively configure who your "upstream" is
and pull from there. You do not have direct control who are the
people who are pulling from you.
So in that sense, "downstream" exists as a concept that is just as
valid as "upstream", but unlike "upstream", "downstream" does not
manifest itself as something you explicitly tell Git about, either
from the command line, in the remotes definition, or in the
configuration files.
Certainly for contributors, a configured 'downstream' repo doesn't make
sense, but I do think it's worthwhile for maintainers, Leiutenants, and
dictators who do have a specific publishing place.
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