Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Enhanced decoration for "series -v" command

[Yasushi SHOJI]

At Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:42:40 +1000,
Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> In my view, a normal stack has new items put on the top and a down arrow 
> would symbolize the push action.  I.e. pushing an item down onto the top 
> of the stack.

In my view, new item is _placed_ on top of the stack.  pop removes the
top most item from the stack. 

but...

> However, in quilt, the push operation is being applied to a series and 
> the new item is being pushed up onto the bottom of the the series so an 
> up arrow is the appropriate symbol.
> 
> If you look at this in conjunction with the displayed patch list the up 
> arrow also makes sense as it depicts the movement of the pushed patch 
> from the greyed out unapplied patches at the bottom of the list to the 
> applied patches at the top of the list.
>
> Am I the only one who sees this as logical?

Thanks for the clarification.  it now seems much logical to me.

# so i guess "the top most patch" is the one not logical then? ;p
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         yashi