Re: Git terminology: remote, add, track, stage, etc.

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Oct 27, 2010, 15:16 UTC
Message-ID: <1288192595.15518.37.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20101027150314.GB1136@kytes>

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 20:33 +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> > From a863e58d240956191c2fa9cbe992aaca5786730b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:42:05 +0530
> > Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Consistently use the hyphenated "remote-tracking"
> > 
> > Replace instances of the term "remote tracking" with "remote-tracking"
> > in the documentation for clarity.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> 
> and
> 
> > From 7422c2af1ef40c922d8f628715ad96172e4a5734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:16:04 +0530
> > Subject: [PATCH] UI: Don't say "working directory" when we really mean "working tree"
> > 
> > While in some places "working directory" is used to refer to the
> > (current) working directory, it's incorrectly used in places where Git
> > actually means "working tree" or worktree. Weed out and replace these
> > instances in the UI.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> 
> Junio: Are these patches suitable for inclusion?
> 
> -- Ram

Ram, Matthieu has been working on a more comprehensive set of documentation patches--which I'm pretty sure include all of the changes you just mentioned.

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