Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [UPDATE: merge-65] Clarified help messages for tag --seal and --fix

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:50, David Allouche wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 14:10 +0200, Robin Farine wrote:
> > Yes, "branch" has many different meanings, even a precise context 
> > does not suffice to disambiguates its interpretation. To denote a 
> > ordered set of changesets, possibly spanning Arch versions, 
> > "development path" seems more appropriate (at the risk of violating 
> > a trade mark :).
> 
> IIRC the trademark of our dear friend McVoy is "line of development".

Is this serious?

If so, does anyone seriously consider it to be enforceable/ prior usage
of terminology, etc, etc?

In case people hadn't realised it yet, I'm not a great fan of gratuitous
incompatibility (technical, terminology or otherwise).

> For some time, I have been thinking that a good name for this concept in
> the context of Arch would be "line of ancestry" or simply "ancestry". Or
> maybe "lineage".

Too strogly implies historical context, rather than ongoing development.

cheers
zen