From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk.name>
To: "Josh Soref" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: "Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
"Victoria Dye" <vdye@github.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 09:28:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39db75f3-1496-49fc-a346-010ff8ef093c@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1610.git.1699574277143.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, at 00:57, Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget wrote:
> +[[def_peel]]peel::
> + Synonym for object <<def_dereference,dereference>>. Most commonly used
> + in the context of tags, where it refers to the process of recursively
> + dereferencing a <<def_tag_object,tag object>> until the result object's
> + <<def_object_type,type>> is something other than "tag".
As a user I like that this is classified as a synonym. Because if I wanted
to ask StackOverflow about how to get to the commit that a tag points to
then I would use the term “dereference a tag”.
--
Kristoffer Haugsbakk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-10 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-09 23:57 [PATCH] glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2023-11-10 0:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-11-10 5:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-11-10 8:28 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2023-11-13 23:17 ` [PATCH v2] " Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget
2023-11-14 4:49 ` Junio C Hamano
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