Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 19, 2015, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20150519222427.GA994@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqwq04745w.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:34:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> A quick "git grep packfile" vs "git grep pack-file" inside
> Documentation/ directory indicates that we seem to use 'packfile'
> primarily in the lower-level technical documents that are not
> end-user facing.  Almost half of them are in the release notes
> that we won't bother "fixing", so it might make sense to go the
> other way around, consistently using "pack-file" that may be more
> familiar to end-users.
> 
> What do others think?

If I saw "pack-file" (outside of this discussion) I would think it was wrong. That's just my opinion, of course.

Searching for "packfile" on the list yields 2145 messages. Searching for "pack-file" yields 764. Searching for "pack file" yields 2007 (maybe more, as my grep did not take into account line breaks).

-Peff