From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:26:15 -0700 Message-ID: <7vll30wejs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 17 21:28:00 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5TYK-0002pq-IN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:26:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751215AbVHQT0R (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751216AbVHQT0R (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:17 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao06.cox.net ([68.230.241.33]:54707 "EHLO fed1rmmtao06.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751215AbVHQT0R (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:17 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050817192614.OUEU19494.fed1rmmtao06.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:26:14 -0400 To: Marco Costalba , Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (Marco Costalba's message of "Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:54:51 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Marco Costalba writes: >>revision:: >> A particular state of files and directories which was stored in >> the object database. It is referenced by a commit object. >> >>commit object:: >> An object which contains the information about a particular >> revision, such as parents, committer, author, date and the >> tree object which corresponds to the top directory of the >> stored revision. > So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-) It would be more like "revision" is a concept represented (not "referenced") by a commit object. >>repository:: >> A collection of refs together with an object database containing >> all objects, which are reachable from the refs. A repository can >> share an object database with other repositories. >> > > In a lot of git documentation, starting from the tutorial, it is used 'git archive' > but peraphs 'repository' is more a standard definition for an SCM archive. > Just archive peraphs is too generic, also a tarball is an archive :-) Agreed. I personally think the word "archive" on this list came from people who have some degree of tla background. CVS and SVN people would have said repository.