From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 21:47:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbLRDoAm5BaQ-OQ_OA19HBmhK3r6TWLiK1WMGGcTBVgtQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzis5ebxk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> (e.g. work tree for working tree?)
>
> This was probably primarily my fault, not just because I've written
> more than my share of documentation (compared to the code that
> touched), but I was deliberately writing "work tree" when both "work
> tree" and "working tree" terms meant the same thing.  Compared to
> the length of the timeperiod, the newcomer who is now known as
> "worktree" has only lived a very short period of time, so it is not
> surprising to see remaining "work tree" in our documentation set.

Sure.

>
> I think some attempts like 06cdac5a (git-reset.txt: use "working
> tree" consistently, 2010-09-15) were made to clean things up even
> before "worktree" started to mean an entirely different thing, and
> we shouldn't make things worse by adding mentions of "work tree"
> when we mean "working tree".

Ok. I'll see if I can send a similar patch like that.