Re: Worktree vs. working copy

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

On 09/20/2011 09:50 AM, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
> I've noticed that in some places in git.git, the term 'working copy' is
> used. Mostly it's in git-cvsserver which I guess it's fine, but the
> git-config man page talks about the 'working copy' in three places.
> 
>     $ git grep 'worktree' | wc -l
>     412
>     $ git grep 'working copy' | grep -v ^git-cvsserver |  wc -l
>     32

Please note that the string "worktree" mostly appears in code
(presumably as variable names) and in the names of options.  In text,
"working tree" is far more common than either:

$ git grep -i 'worktree' -- '*.txt' | wc -l
50
$ git grep -i 'working copy' -- '*.txt' | wc -l
6
$ git grep -i 'working tree' -- '*.txt' | wc -l
330

Michael

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