I agree with you that they're not logical, but unfortunately I think it's too late to fix now. All the documentation, stackoverflow questions and answers, and

I agree with you that they're not logical, but unfortunately I think it's too late to fix now. All the documentation, stackoverflow questions and answers, and so forth assume you're using standard git commands and terminology. At least (in trying to match what the GitHub applications do) it's not trying to invent a completely new system. But I don't see this getting much traction unless GitHub adopts it and pushes it as their "official" command line client.