Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it>
Date: Aug 17, 2005, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Marco Costalba wrote:
>
>>P.S: I say 'revision', and 'git archive' but are very common also 
>>'commit' and 'git repository'. This is just a silly example where a 
>>common dictionary should be useful.
>
>
>How about the glossary, which I posted a few hours ago?
>
>Ciao,
>Dscho
>
>

Yeah, I missed it.

Sorry for the noise.

By the way, a very good and useful job.

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>revision::
>	A particular state of files and directories which was stored in
>	the object database. It is referenced by a commit object.
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>commit object::
>	An object which contains the information about a particular
>	revision, such as parents, committer, author, date and the
>	tree object which corresponds to the top directory of the
>	stored revision.
>

So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-)

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>repository::
>	A collection of refs together with an object database containing
>	all objects, which are reachable from the refs. A repository can
>	share an object database with other repositories.
>

In a lot of git documentation, starting from the tutorial, it is used 'git archive' but peraphs 'repository' is more a standard definition for an SCM archive. Just archive peraphs is too generic, also a tarball is an archive :-)

Marco

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