From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20090429140520.GA31343@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> <20090425003531.GA18125@coredump.intra.peff.net> <1A9F6DB0-983F-4A5B-B3B7-33227C11F36A@boostpro.com> <20090429063448.GA22448@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: David Abrahams X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 29 16:05:37 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 1LzAPn-0004y5-Oz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:05:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751258AbZD2OFZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750937AbZD2OFZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:25 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:37637 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750804AbZD2OFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:24 -0400 Received: (qmail 8177 invoked by uid 107); 29 Apr 2009 14:05:37 -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; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:37 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:05:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:27:11AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> object storage. That is, half of the idea of git is a big database of >> content-addressable objects. > > Absolutely, it's important to know that everything is content-addressable > (which essentially communicates the same important information as "the > object's id is a hash of its contents"). I was trying to say that the > fact that each one is a "first-class" object and has a unique name is not > particularly remarkable. I see. I consider those concepts inextricably linked. But I suppose you could explain one without the other. Anyway, thanks for the perspective. -Peff