Re: [PATCH] glossary: use "object ID" as the canonical term

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Julia Evans via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
>
> Currently in the glossary "object name" is used as the canonical term to
> refer to an object's SHA-1 (or SHA-256) identifier. However, in several
> places in the documentation, "object name" is used with a different
> meaning, for example:

These other places should be fixed, IMHO, though.

>
> from git-rev-parse.adoc:
>     Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with possible
>     ^ prefix); this option makes them output in a form as close to the
>     original input as possible.
>
> from gitrevisions.adoc:
>     Here are various ways to spell object names.
>     (lists <refname>, HEAD, etc)

You can use <refname>, HEAD, etc., where the command takes object
names.  It exactly refers to those 40 hexadecimal digits to identify
objects.

I'll reject this.