{"thread":{"id":"9873","subject":"Re: [PATCH 11/12] documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter","startedAt":"2007-09-16T01:56:06Z","lastAt":"2007-09-16T19:38:27Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["J. Bruce Fields","Andreas Ericsson"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":12},"messages":[{"id":"53162","messageId":"20070916015606.GA5118@fieldses.org","threadId":"9873","inReplyTo":"46E45F45.3040109@op5.se","subject":"Re: [PATCH 11/12] documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter","fromName":"J. Bruce Fields","fromEmail":"bfields@fieldses.org","sentAt":"2007-09-16T01:56:06Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-16T01:56:06Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"bfields@citi.umich.edu","avatar":null},"body":"On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:\n> J. Bruce Fields wrote:\n>> +\n>> +A git project normally consists of a working directory with a \".git\"\n>> +subdirectory at the top level.  The .git directory contains, among other\n>> +things, a compressed object database representing the complete history\n>> +of the project, a set of pointers into that history (\"refs\")\n>\n> ... into that history (\"refs\" - branches and tags)\n\nI slept on it and took another look, and decided you were right; this is\nwhat I have there now:\n \n  A git project normally consists of a working directory with a \".git\"\n  subdirectory at the top level.  The .git directory contains, among\n  other things, a compressed object database representing the complete\n  history of the project, an \"index\" file which links that history to\n  the current contents of the working tree, and named pointers into that\n  history such as tags and branch heads.\n \n--b.\n"},{"id":"53163","messageId":"20070916022030.GB5118@fieldses.org","threadId":"9873","inReplyTo":"7vbqcbuzgj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH 05/12] user-manual: rewrite index discussion","fromName":"J. Bruce Fields","fromEmail":"bfields@fieldses.org","sentAt":"2007-09-16T02:20:30Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-16T02:20:30Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"bfields@citi.umich.edu","avatar":null},"body":"On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> At the end of first paragraph as a note would be good.  People\n> may scan from top to bottom (maybe \"Find...\") to look for\n> \"cache\" and find the sentence \"this chapter is about index but\n> that is what you are looking for\".  That feels a natural flow.\n\nOK, I've addressed all the comments I've gotten and pushed an updated\nversion to:\n\n  git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/git.git maint\n\nPlease pull if it looks ready.\n\n--b.\n\nJ. Bruce Fields (12):\n      user-manual: adjust section levels in \"git internals\"\n      user-manual: move object format details to hacking-git chapter\n      user-manual: rename \"git internals\" to \"git concepts\"\n      user-manual: create new \"low-level git operations\" chapter\n      user-manual: rewrite index discussion\n      user-manual: reorder commit, blob, tree discussion\n      user-manual: rewrite object database discussion\n      user-manual: move packfile and dangling object discussion\n      user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles\n      user-manual: todo updates and cleanup\n      documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter\n      core-tutorial: minor cleanup\n\n Documentation/Makefile          |    2 +-\n Documentation/core-intro.txt    |  592 --------------------------\n Documentation/core-tutorial.txt |   32 +-\n Documentation/git.txt           |   57 +++-\n Documentation/user-manual.txt   |  868 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------\n 5 files changed, 548 insertions(+), 1003 deletions(-)\n delete mode 100644 Documentation/core-intro.txt\n"},{"id":"53208","messageId":"46ED8633.9070000@op5.se","threadId":"9873","inReplyTo":"20070916015606.GA5118@fieldses.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH 11/12] documentation: replace Discussion section by link to user-manual chapter","fromName":"Andreas Ericsson","fromEmail":"ae@op5.se","sentAt":"2007-09-16T19:38:27Z","receivedAt":"2007-09-16T19:38:27Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"ae@op5.se","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/426e89595c75a8f5252dd0c989e5fabe5bcac616e68557427ad9aef6b0ca342a?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"J. Bruce Fields wrote:\n> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:\n>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:\n>>> +\n>>> +A git project normally consists of a working directory with a \".git\"\n>>> +subdirectory at the top level.  The .git directory contains, among other\n>>> +things, a compressed object database representing the complete history\n>>> +of the project, a set of pointers into that history (\"refs\")\n>> ... into that history (\"refs\" - branches and tags)\n> \n> I slept on it and took another look, and decided you were right; this is\n> what I have there now:\n>  \n>   A git project normally consists of a working directory with a \".git\"\n>   subdirectory at the top level.  The .git directory contains, among\n>   other things, a compressed object database representing the complete\n>   history of the project, an \"index\" file which links that history to\n>   the current contents of the working tree, and named pointers into that\n>   history such as tags and branch heads.\n>  \n\nLooks good. Thanks :)\n\n-- \nAndreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se\nOP5 AB                             www.op5.se\nTel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231\n"}]}