From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:58:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] revision caching documentation: man page and technical discussion
Message-ID: <1249682294.6221.2.camel@maia.lan>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908071419590.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:20 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > I think the word he had in mind was "coalesce".
> As Git users typically have a quite good idea what a "merge" is, I'd 
> prefer that word anyway.

I don't like that so much, given that "merge" has quite a specific
meaning.  But not really that fussed.  In this case it's more like a
'gc' or 'repack'; an internal reshuffle of an index to make it a single
one and not many.

Sam