From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>,
Nick Edelen <sirnot@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.se>,
Christian Couder <christian@couder.net>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] revision caching documentation: man page and technical discussion
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:58:14 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249682294.6221.2.camel@maia.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908071419590.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:20 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I think the word he had in mind was "coalesce".
> As Git users typically have a quite good idea what a "merge" is, I'd
> prefer that word anyway.
I don't like that so much, given that "merge" has quite a specific
meaning. But not really that fussed. In this case it's more like a
'gc' or 'repack'; an internal reshuffle of an index to make it a single
one and not many.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 9:55 [PATCH 1/5] revision caching documentation: man page and technical discussion Nick Edelen
2009-08-07 3:08 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-07 12:07 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-08-07 12:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-07 21:58 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
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