From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: <20090425003531.GA18125@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <200904240051.46233.johan@herland.net> <200904242230.13239.johan@herland.net> <20090424213848.GA14493@coredump.intra.peff.net> <4E155CC5-B20A-4B79-8CBF-9D1E0E36920F@boostpro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Daniel Barkalow , Johan Herland , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" To: David Abrahams X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 25 02:37:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LxVtM-0006wz-Bz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:37:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751437AbZDYAfm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbZDYAfm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:42 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:46272 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbZDYAfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 638 invoked by uid 107); 25 Apr 2009 00:35:52 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:52 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:35:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E155CC5-B20A-4B79-8CBF-9D1E0E36920F@boostpro.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:19:18PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> git show master >> git show master:Documentation >> git show master:Makefile >> > I don't believe you need to know about trees and blobs to make sense of > that. Those are just directories and files. The whole idea that trees > are a more-general thing that could be used to represent something other > than directory structure and blobs could be used to represent something > other than file contents is way below most peoples' need-to-know > threshold. Actually, it is not the generally of trees that I think is interesting there, but the generality of _objects_. That is, each of those things is a first-class object, and has a unique name by which it can be referred. The examples above are just _one_ of the ways you can refer to the same objects. -Peff