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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:34:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4374ABF7.1010304@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511111514420.7575@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>This had me puzzled for quite some time. Some notice to the tutorial about
>>what's meant when it says "tree-ish" or "commit-ish" would be nice (I still
>>haven't been able to figure it out).
> 
> 
> See glossary.txt.
> 

Ahhh. Terminology (here daft ole me was grep'ing away for 
"nomenclature"...). Thanks a million.

Although it would be nice if it was mentioned up top with the other 
"read these first" files.

> 
>>The wording in git-diff-index.txt isn't exactly stellar either.
> 
> 
> Agree. Want to do something about it?
> 

Why not? Usually I can't even understand my own documentation, but it 
might at least raise the discussion.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-11  1:12 [PATCH] Change 'cache' to 'index' in the docs Lukas Sandström
2005-11-11  1:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-11-11 11:49   ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-11 14:15     ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-11 14:34       ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2005-11-11 15:35         ` Johannes Schindelin

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