From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] glossary: add 'treeish' as a synonym for 'tree-ish'
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:35:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C2162B.2070103@bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vli6610yg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 2013-06-19 13:09, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> writes:
>
>> The documentation contains a mix of the two spellings, and including
>> both makes it possible for users to search the glossary with their
>> spelling of choice.
>
> Is it an option to instead find dashless form in our documentation
> and turn all of them into tree-ish form with a dash? I personally
> find it cleaner that way.
My preference is treeish and committish (instead of tree-ish and
commit-ish) because those are the spellings used in the source code.
-Richard
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
>> index db2a74d..01365d9 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
>> @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec.
>> with refs to the associated blob and/or tree objects. A
>> <<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>.
>>
>> -[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish::
>> +[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish)::
>> A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit
>> object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag
>> object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-19 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 2:09 [PATCH 0/4] documentation cleanups for <rev>^{<type>} Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] glossary: add 'treeish' as a synonym for 'tree-ish' Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 19:12 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 21:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 20:35 ` Richard Hansen [this message]
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] glossary: define committish (a.k.a. commit-ish) Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 4:19 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-19 4:38 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 5:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-19 15:31 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 16:10 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 6:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-06-19 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 19:16 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 22:23 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 22:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-19 23:37 ` Richard Hansen
2013-06-20 3:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-20 10:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-20 10:37 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] glossary: more precise definition of tree-ish (a.k.a. treeish) Richard Hansen
2013-06-19 2:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] revisions.txt: fix and clarify <rev>^{<type>} Richard Hansen
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