From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:09:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] glossary: add 'treeish' as a synonym for 'tree-ish'
Message-ID: <7vli6610yg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1371607780-2966-2-git-send-email-rhansen@bbn.com>

Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> writes:

> The documentation contains a mix of the two spellings, and including
> both makes it possible for users to search the glossary with their
> spelling of choice.

Is it an option to instead find dashless form in our documentation
and turn all of them into tree-ish form with a dash?  I personally
find it cleaner that way.

>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> index db2a74d..01365d9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ should not be combined with other pathspec.
>  	with refs to the associated blob and/or tree objects. A
>  	<<def_tree,tree>> is equivalent to a <<def_directory,directory>>.
>  
> -[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish::
> +[[def_tree-ish]]tree-ish (also treeish)::
>  	A <<def_ref,ref>> pointing to either a <<def_commit_object,commit
>  	object>>, a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>, or a <<def_tag_object,tag
>  	object>> pointing to a tag or commit or tree object.