Luke Imhoff wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 07:41, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Bolstridge, Andrew wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Good naming, they tell us programmers, is important.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trunks, tags and branches are all pretty much the same thing in
>>>>> subversion. The trunk is just a specially named branch not
>>>>> located in
>>>>> the branches folder. Tags are just branches that don't get
>>>>> edited. And
>>>>> even branches are just a convention.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm writing some scripts to automate certain repetitive subversion
>>>>> tasks and am trying to come up with a term to encompass trunk,
>>>>> tag or
>>>>> branch. For example:
>>>>>
>>>>> svn://foo/trunk/a/b/c -- is some folder inside the trunk. The
>>>>> trunk is
>>>>> at svn://foo/trunk
>>>>> svn://foo/branches/1.x/a/b/c -- the branch is at
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> svn://foo/branches/1.x
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> svn://foo/tags/1.0/a/b/c -- the tag is at svn://foo/tags/1.0
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to be able, in all three cases to say the *mumble* of <url>
>>>>> is at <shorter-url>.
>>>>>
>>>>> What should I use in place of *mumble*? Things I've considered.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> How about:
>>>> Base (or Basis);
>>>> Foundation;
>>>> Source;
>>>> Root (not keen on this one)
>>>> Top;
>>>> Terminus.
>>>>
>>>> I like Foundation best, "...go to the project foundation and click on
>>>> tags to see..."
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why not just call it the project?
>>>
>>>
>> He's not looking for a word for the project. He's looking for a word
>> that can be used to describe the trunk, or any branch, or any tag, of
>> the project.
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> In my code and docs for the tools I build on top of Subversion I call
> that the version path.
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Try thesaurus:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/branch
In fact, all of these are just "copies". Am I right?
Radomir
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