Re: [PATCH] doc: remove "directory cache" from man pages

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jan 8, 2021, 18:32 UTC
Message-ID: <X/ilPZ71woYI5vT+@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <pull.943.git.git.1610124896385.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Hi Utku,

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 04:54:56PM +0000, Utku Gultopu via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> From: Utku Gultopu <ugultopu@gmail.com>
>
> "directory cache" (or "directory cache index", "cache") are obsolete
> terms which have been superseded by "index". Keeping them in the
> documentation may be a source of confusion. This commit replaces
> them with the current term, "index", on man pages.

This patch looks good to me. There is another mention of the old-style "directory cache" in the user manual (Documentation/user-manual.txt) which could probably be removed:

    Note that in older documentation you may see the index called the
    "current directory cache" or just the "cache".  It has three important
    properties:

Thanks, Taylor