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core/commands/unixfs: Rename 'ipfs unixfs' to 'ipfs file'
To be less confusing to newcomers (the IPFS filesystem isn't Unix-specific anyway, and it isn't even very POSIX-specific [1,2,3]). I'm a bit uncertain about having one name for users and another for devs, but the consensus seems to be that mainaining two names is worth the trouble [4]. We also kicked around: * 'files' (plural), * 'filesystem' (too long), and * 'fs' (redundant after 'ipfs', even though IPFS isn't just about filesystems) on IRC [5 through 6]. I wish there was a more evocative term. I'm never sure where "file" lands on the scale between "filesysytem", "everything is a file", "a single chunk of data with an associated inode". But we can't think of anything better. [1]: #1348 (comment) [2]: #1348 (comment) [3]: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/1136/files#r29377283 In my response to this (no longer visibile on GitHub): On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:30:04PM -0700, Juan Batiz-Benet wrote: > > +package fsnode > > i think this package should be called `unixfs` as that's the > abstraction that this is calling to. Will do, although I don't see what's especially Unix-y about these file nodes. [4]: #1348 (comment) [5]: https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-06-09/?msg=41428456&page=5 [6]: https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-06-09/?msg=41430703&page=5 License: MIT Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
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