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Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Sep 2, 2005, 18:09 UTC
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On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Tim Ottinger <tottinge@progeny.com> writes:
> 
> > git-update-cache for instance?
> > I am not sure which 'cache' commands need to be 'index' now.
> 
> Logically you are right, but I suspect that may not fly well in
> practice.  Too many of us have already got our fingers wired to
> type cache, and the glossary is there to describe both cache and
> index.

My vote's for changing the official names, but keeping symlinks for the old names. As far as I know, there aren't any actual conflicts, and we might as well have new users pick up the logical names. I particularly think "git merge" would be really good to have.

	-Daniel
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