From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:30:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
Message-ID: <7vfxmdev8w.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081030191433.710aff11@perceptron>

"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).