From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:20:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
Message-ID: <xmqqa5rmw5ff.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1qcyxxri.fsf@gitster.g>

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

> I've never seen "peel" used for commits, though.  So another
> improvement might be to say "peel" is "an act of dereferencing a
> tag" here.

I am reasonably sure I was the one who coined the term "peel", and
the picture I had in mind when I used it was to peel an onion, which
inherently was about unwrapping many levels repeatedly.  I think
that is why it felt strange to see "peel" used in the context of
using a commit as a tree-ish, which (as your documentation update
clearly said) is doable only once.