From: Michael Witten Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:52:03 GMT Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <33614929-B5B2-4B54-BF18-81ADBBCC4925@boostpro.com> 2009/4/27 David Abrahams : > > I didn't.  I meant the general notion of "object" in computing.  I'm trying > to talk about how the language used by Git's docs can bias people toward > correct or incorrect understandings of Git as they're learning. Actually, I believe object was first used to describe anything stored in memory. Given that, I still think my usage of C pointer terminology is superior to everything; it's just the case that objects are content addressable in the git world and location addressable in the C world.