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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2008, 19:30 UTC
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"Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs> writes:
> The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can
> mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to
> some kind of path". This clarifies things (and also calls the object ID a
> hash rather than a name because that might be confusing too).

I'd agree with the first change, but not with the second. "object name" has been the official name of these hexadecimal thingy for a long time (see the glossary).

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  1. Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attributeJan Krüger, Oct 30, 2008
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