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From: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit)
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: scs@eskimo.com
Subject: suggestion for git glossary: upstream, downstream
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:15:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2020Dec29.0815.scs.0001@quinine2.home> (raw)

The terms "upstream" and "downstream" are heavily used in much
writing about git, with obvious meanings and implications for
those who use git regularly, but they're not defined at
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary .  Perhaps they should be?
(Sorry, I'm not nearly experienced enough with git yet to write
good definitions myself, though.)

             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-29 13:15 Steve Summit [this message]
2021-01-04 23:57 ` suggestion for git glossary: upstream, downstream Junio C Hamano

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