From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakes
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:44:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114194431.GO14254@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8x50hawk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:42:03AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:
>
> > I actually prefer "head" here. On something like:
> >
> > A--B--C
> > /
> > o--o--o
> > \
> > o--o--o
> >
> >
> > The term "branch" could be used to refer to the whole line of
> > development consisting of A, B, and C. The term "head", on the other
> > hand, refers to either C or a ref that points to it. We also use the
> > terms "branch head" or just "branch" for that case, but I think "head"
> > is more precise.
> >
> >> +This lists the commits reachable from the previous version of the branch.
> >> +This syntax can be used with any git command that accepts a commit,
> >> not just with git log. Some other examples:
> >
> > (Otherwise looks fine, thanks!)
>
> Oops, I think I skipped the hunk #2 and applied hunk #3. Will
> fix-up with:
OK, thanks Junio!
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 18:19 [PATCH] user-manual.txt: fix a few mistakes Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 7:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 12:46 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-14 18:13 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-14 18:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-14 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 19:44 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-11-15 10:36 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-16 3:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-16 11:34 ` Sergei Organov
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