whither "sandbox"?

Ben Collins-Sussman sussman at red-bean.com
Sat Aug 6 18:22:04 CDT 2005


On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   i just grepped the XML files for the latest rev of the book, and
> there was no mention of the phrase "sandbox" being a historical
> alternative to "working copy".
>
>   is it worth maybe just mentioning that once, perhaps on the page
> that introduces the svn architecture diagram, even in passing?  after
> all, the word "sandbox" definitely occurs in the mailing list, so
> people are using it.


It does?  I've never seen an svn developer use that term on the dev@  
list.  Nor have I seen it mentioned much (at all) on the users@ list.




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