Re: Terminology

From: barkalow@iabervon.org <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2005, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508051531400.23721@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508051104510.3258@g5.osdl.org>

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> >   - The files under $GIT_DIR/refs record object names, and are
> >     called "refs".  What is under refs/heads/ are called "heads",
> >     refs/tags/ "tags".  Typically, they are either object names
> >     of commit objects or tag objects that resolve to commit
> >     objects, but a tag can point at any object.
> > 
> > The tutorial never calls them "refs", but instead "references".
> 
> It might be worth saying explicitly that a reference is nothing but the 
> same thing as a "object name" aka "sha1".

Well, it's an object name stored in a file. This adds a layer of indirection and a meaningful name.

> So I'd vote for making the suggested definition official: "fetch" means
> fetching the data, and "pull" means "fetch + merge".

So what's the converse of "fetch" (to rename git-ssh-push to)? Maybe "ship"?

	-Daniel
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