Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 25, 2009, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20090425003531.GA18125@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E155CC5-B20A-4B79-8CBF-9D1E0E36920F@boostpro.com>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:19:18PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:

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>>  git show master
>>  git show master:Documentation
>>  git show master:Makefile
>>
> I don't believe you need to know about trees and blobs to make sense of 
> that.  Those are just directories and files.  The whole idea that trees 
> are a more-general thing that could be used to represent something other 
> than directory structure and blobs could be used to represent something 
> other than file contents is way below most peoples' need-to-know 
> threshold.

Actually, it is not the generally of trees that I think is interesting there, but the generality of _objects_. That is, each of those things is a first-class object, and has a unique name by which it can be referred. The examples above are just _one_ of the ways you can refer to the same objects.

-Peff