From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 19:18:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HlpoW-0006An-Hn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:18:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755947AbXEIRSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755999AbXEIRSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:18:50 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:41644 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755947AbXEIRSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 13:18:49 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l49HIgZD008643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 9 May 2007 19:18:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1HlpoH-0004iF-Uf; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:18:42 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HlpoH-0002M4-SS; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:18:41 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: (Matthieu Moy's message of "Sun\, 06 May 2007 20\:23\:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Wed, 09 May 2007 19:18:42 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy writes: > (I would actually complain about the documentation not being clear > enough, but I'll try to complain with a contribution instead ;-) I'll > add something to the FAQ on the wiki, but it's down right now). As promised, here's a FAQ entry on the wiki: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-3aa45c7d75d40068e07231a5bf8a1a0db9a8b717 Feel free to correct it. Anyway, thanks for the interesting discussion. -- Matthieu