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From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit* graph file"
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:32:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38803edb-de41-90db-33f6-f1a0d5344608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65f42c947aa2b392075740673a5dc889fd6e64e6.1537374062.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

On 9/19/2018 12:30 PM, Martin Ågren wrote:
> This document sometimes refers to the "commit graph file" as just "the
> graph file". This saves a couple of words here and there at the risk of
> confusion. In particular, the documentation for `git commit-graph read`
> appears to suggest that there are indeed different types of graph files.
>
> Let's just write out the full name everywhere.
This is a good idea. Let's be specific.
> The full name, by the way, is not the "commit-graph file" with a dash,
> cf. the synopsis. Use the dashless form. (The next commit will fix the
> remaining few instances of the "commit-graph file" in this document.)

The file is literally at ".git/objects/info/commit-graph" which is why I 
tried to use "commit-graph" everywhere. Why do you think that "commit 
graph" is better?

Thanks,
-Stolee

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-20 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-19 16:30 [PATCH 0/4] git-commit-graph.txt: various cleanups Martin Ågren
2018-09-19 16:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists Martin Ågren
2018-09-19 23:28   ` Derrick Stolee
2018-09-19 16:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace Martin Ågren
2018-09-19 23:29   ` Derrick Stolee
2018-09-19 16:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit* graph file" Martin Ågren
2018-09-19 23:32   ` Derrick Stolee [this message]
2018-09-20 13:38     ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-20 13:42       ` Derrick Stolee
2018-09-27 19:12         ` [PATCH v2 0/4] git-commit-graph.txt: various cleanups Martin Ågren
2018-09-27 19:12           ` [PATCH v2 1/4] git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists Martin Ågren
2018-09-27 19:12           ` [PATCH v2 2/4] git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace Martin Ågren
2018-09-27 19:12           ` [PATCH v2 3/4] git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file" Martin Ågren
2018-09-27 19:12           ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash Martin Ågren
2018-09-27 19:16           ` [PATCH v2 0/4] git-commit-graph.txt: various cleanups Derrick Stolee
2018-09-27 19:21             ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-19 16:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] git-commit-graph.txt: refer to the "commit graph file" without dash Martin Ågren

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