From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:07:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] doc: clarify that "git bisect" accepts one or more good commits
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
>>   in this sense, i don't think "indicate" and "identify" are
>> completely interchangeable. in my mind, the word "identify" does
>> nothing more than, you know, point at something and say, "that one,
>> that's the one i'm talking about;" it goes no further than that.
>>
>>   on the other hand, the word "indicate" (in my mind) implies that
>> you're about to provide some *property* or *quality* of something, and
>> you do exactly that in the earlier quote:
>
> I do not think the two words have different connotations, so we are
> in agreement.  You do not necessarily need a property in mind when

Eek.  I do do think the two words are not interchangeable.
I should stop typing late at night.