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

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
May 20, 2015, 05:13 UTC
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:34:03PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> There still are a handful of "pack-file" remaining in the
> documentation set, even after applying these three that changes
> 6 instances of 'pack-file' to 'packfile'.
> 
> git-index-pack.txt:'git index-pack' [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
> git-index-pack.txt:                 [<pack-file>]
> git-index-pack.txt:	instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
> git-index-pack.txt:	<pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to
> git-index-pack.txt:	<pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to
> git-unpack-objects.txt:'git unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] [-r] [--strict] < <pack-file>
> technical/pack-heuristics.txt:    <linus> Anyway, the pack-file could easily be denser still, but
> technical/pack-heuristics.txt:    <linus> In particular, while the pack-file is then compressed,
> technical/pack-heuristics.txt:    <linus> Anyway: I'm not even trying to claim that the pack-files
> technical/pack-protocol.txt:  update-request    =  *shallow ( command-list | push-cert ) [pack-file]
> technical/pack-protocol.txt:  pack-file         = "PACK" 28*(OCTET)
> user-manual.txt:[[pack-files]]
> 
> 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?

I was aware of the other instances of 'pack-file'. The only case where 'pack-file' does occur after my patches, though, was as command line parameters, where I didn't want to change it. If that's desired I can whip up another patch.

Patrick
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Message 17 of 17 in “git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"”
  1. 1/3 git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt, May 17, 2015
  2. 2/3 git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt, May 17, 2015
  3. 3/3 pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt, May 17, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2015
  5. Jeff KingMay 19, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2015
  8. Jeff KingMay 20, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2015
  10. Jeff KingMay 21, 2015
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2015
  12. doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt, May 21, 2015
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2015
  14. Patrick SteinhardtMay 22, 2015
  15. doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"Patrick Steinhardt, May 22, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2015
  17. Patrick SteinhardtMay 20, 2015

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