Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:53:37PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>> Actually, it is not the generally of trees that I think is  
>>> interesting
>>> there, but the generality of _objects_. That is, each of those  
>>> things is
>>> a first-class object, and has a unique name by which it can be
>>> referred.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but I think most people would find that so unremarkable  
>> that
>> making a big deal about it would lead to "what am I missing here"
>> confusion.  Maybe a person who's exclusively used CVS (or older)
>> technologies before coming to Git would be happy to know that, but  
>> it's
>> sort of obvious.  In CVS the lack of first-class directories sticks  
>> out
>> like a sore thumb.
>
> Sadly, I was away from email all weekend and so missed the ensuing  
> storm
> in this thread. :) However, I did want to respond to this one point.
>
> To me (and I am talking from personal experience, so it really may be
> _just_ me), an important part of understanding git was understanding  
> the
> object storage. That is, half of the idea of git is a big database of
> content-addressable objects.