Re: git help clone: questions

> kalle <kalle@projektwerkstatt.de> writes:
> 
>> Am 06.03.2018 um 02:36 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>>> kalle <kalle@projektwerkstatt.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> -In the explanation of the option --reference: shouldn't there be
>>>> written '<repository>' instead of  'reference repository'?
>>>
>>> "Shouldn't X be Y?" is not an effective way to communicate; it
>>> solicits a "no, the current one is fine." without any explanation.
>>>
>>> If you think X should be Y for some reason, please say "I think X
>>> should be Y BECAUSE Z" instead.  Without stating why you think
>>> differently from what those who wrote the current text, it is hard
>>> for people to respond either with "Yeah, you're right---I agree
>>> with Z" or with "No, Z does not hold because..."
>>>
>> I wrote this, because when it is written about 'reference repository', I
>> consider it not totally clear, which repository is meant, as the option
>> '--reference <repository>' only names one as <repository>.
>> For reasons of clearness, I now propose writing "reference repository
>> <repository>".
> 
> I do not have particularly a strong opinion, but I think it is very
> sensible to call the value given to the option "--reference" with a
> phrase that is not just "repository".

> 
> As the command line of "clone" must name one repository (i.e. the
> one which we clone from), and its "--reference" option must name
> another repository as its value (i.e. the one that we borrow from in
> order to reduce the object transfer), calling both <repository>
> makes it easier to confuse readers

> sure that <repository> in the desription is unambiguous and it is
> clear which one of these two repositories is being discussed by the
> context.>
> I just re-read the existing Documentation/git-clone.txt and looked
> for "reference".  All uses of "reference repository" in the prose
> made sense and I found it would not be an improvement if any of them
> is replaced with just "repository". 

> something like:
> 
> 	 --reference[-if-able] <repository>::
> 	+	Define a repository (reference repository) to borrow
> 	+	objects from.  
> 		If the reference repository is on the local machine,
> 		...
> 
> to define which repository we mean by that term, though.
>