Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:11:40PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
>> > Let's start a reformation of the git terminology to use analogies that
>> > have been around since the dawn of computing: 'memory', 'address', and
>> > 'pointer'.
>>
>> I actually think calling them "sha1s" is better, simply because this bit
>> of jargon doesn't mean anything else (git deals with email, so "address"
>> is overloaded). And the term is already in use for this particular case,
>> and it doesn't mean anything else at all (since, of course, the crypto
>> thing is "SHA-1", not "sha1"), and it's short (which is important for
>> making it easy to look at usage help).
>
> Junio suggested "object name" in another thread, which I think is nicely
> descriptive.

It's not a name, it's an identification, so how about "id"? You have
tree ids, commit ids, blob ids, and so on.

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Felipe Contreras