From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:26:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] "git apply --threeway"
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In-Reply-To: <vpqtxzobigw.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>>  - After trying and failing to apply the patch text, we inspect our object
>>    database and see if there is a blob object that matches what is
>>    recorded on the "index" line of the patch as its preimage.
>
> Just being curious: why is it called "index"?

I don't remember exactly, but I think it has something to do with the
"name"-ness of the hexdigit strings that can be used to identify objects
in the object store, i.e. the object names serving as indices.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/9694/focus=9794