From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 07:31:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] "git apply --threeway"
Message-ID: <vpqtxzobigw.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1336629745-22436-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>  - After trying and failing to apply the patch text, we inspect our object
>    database and see if there is a blob object that matches what is
>    recorded on the "index" line of the patch as its preimage.

Just being curious: why is it called "index"?

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/