From: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: Nick Edelen <sirnot@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <exon@op5.se>,
Christian Couder <christian@couder.net>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] revision caching documentation: man page and technical discussion
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7C18F2.2000905@dawes.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7B9ACA.1060601@vilain.net>
Sam Vilain wrote:
>> +`fuse`::
>> + Coagulate several cache slices into a single large slice.
>>
>
> Coagulate? You mean, the revision caches will stop being liquid and go
> gluggy, like a pool of blood clotting?
>
> How about "combine" :-) - and the option might be better called
> something simple like that, too.
I think the word he had in mind was "coalesce".
Rogan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-07 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-06 9:55 [PATCH 1/5] revision caching documentation: man page and technical discussion Nick Edelen
2009-08-07 3:08 ` Sam Vilain
2009-08-07 12:07 ` Rogan Dawes [this message]
2009-08-07 12:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-08-07 21:58 ` Sam Vilain
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