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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: svn versus git
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:08:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612151208.56286.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <elu0n5$u0i$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Friday 2006 December 15 11:27, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > $ git-ls-tree v1.0.0
> > 100644 blob 906e98492080d2fde9467a9970fc92d7a8cfeaf8    Makefile
> >
> > I'm a newbie:  what's that number at the front?  What's a blob?  What's
> > that great big number - I've only seen commit hashes that look like that,
> > and that isn't one.  Definitely not friendly.
>
> The number in front is octal mode of a file or directory. "blob"
> is a file (or symbolic link), "tree" is a directory, all of this
> can be found in git(7).

Sorry, when I said "I'm a newbie", I meant "pretend I'm a newbie" :-)

My point was that this is all too confusing for a newbie; the fact that you 
had to descend to talk about SHA-1 and blob hashes, really serves to 
strengthen my point.  What does a non-developer care about hashes, blobs, 
trees, commits, or objects?

In this case however, I withdrew my complaint because it's argued that 
git-ls-files is not the right tool for this purpose anyway.


Andy
-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-13 22:00 svn versus git Andy Parkins
2006-12-13 22:18 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-12-13 23:20   ` [PATCH] Document the simple way of using of git-cat-file Robin Rosenberg
2006-12-13 23:55     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-14  0:29       ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14  0:35         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13 22:29 ` svn versus git Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13 22:51   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-13 23:14     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13 23:17       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-13 23:32   ` Peter Baumann
2006-12-13 22:56 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-13 23:17   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13 23:26     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-14  9:08   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14  9:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 10:42       ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 15:08       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-14 15:31         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14 16:32           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-14 16:55             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-14 17:10               ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-15  0:19                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 15:26                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-15 20:15                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 20:19                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 21:55                         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-15 22:37                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-12-16  0:26                             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-15 11:27     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-15 12:08       ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2006-12-15 15:19       ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-15 15:41         ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-15 18:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14 15:55   ` Seth Falcon
2006-12-15 11:35     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-13 23:24 ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-12-13 23:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-14  9:19   ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-14 19:00 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-14 22:07   ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-14 22:13     ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-14 22:23       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-12-15  8:52       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-14 23:10   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-15 12:56     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-15  0:58   ` Horst H. von Brand

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