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From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:20:43 -0400
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On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Bj=F6rn Steinbrink wrote:

> That's also why I asked David why the user would look at the
> object files in the repo (the .git dir).


=46or what it's worth, I didn't understand what you meant by "object =20
files" until now.  I never claimed they would look at those files, at =20
least not intentionally.  But just look at any web interface to a Git =20
repo and you'll see why they might encounter the object file names =20
even before they've installed git on their own machine.

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