# Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue 4 messages from 2005-08-17 to 2005-08-17. Participants: Marco Costalba, Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1560 ## Marco Costalba, 2005-08-17 17:54 Subject: Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue Message-ID: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050817175452.84541.qmail%40web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ``` Johannes Schindelin wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Marco Costalba wrote: > >>P.S: I say 'revision', and 'git archive' but are very common also >>'commit' and 'git repository'. This is just a silly example where a >>common dictionary should be useful. > > >How about the glossary, which I posted a few hours ago? > >Ciao, >Dscho > > Yeah, I missed it. Sorry for the noise. By the way, a very good and useful job. > >revision:: > A particular state of files and directories which was stored in > the object database. It is referenced by a commit object. > > >commit object:: > An object which contains the information about a particular > revision, such as parents, committer, author, date and the > tree object which corresponds to the top directory of the > stored revision. > So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-) > >repository:: > A collection of refs together with an object database containing > all objects, which are reachable from the refs. A repository can > share an object database with other repositories. > In a lot of git documentation, starting from the tutorial, it is used 'git archive' but peraphs 'repository' is more a standard definition for an SCM archive. Just archive peraphs is too generic, also a tarball is an archive :-) Marco __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2005-08-17 19:26 Subject: Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue Message-ID: <7vll30wejs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vll30wejs.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net In-Reply-To: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> ``` Marco Costalba writes: >>revision:: >> A particular state of files and directories which was stored in >> the object database. It is referenced by a commit object. >> >>commit object:: >> An object which contains the information about a particular >> revision, such as parents, committer, author, date and the >> tree object which corresponds to the top directory of the >> stored revision. > So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-) It would be more like "revision" is a concept represented (not "referenced") by a commit object. >>repository:: >> A collection of refs together with an object database containing >> all objects, which are reachable from the refs. A repository can >> share an object database with other repositories. >> > > In a lot of git documentation, starting from the tutorial, it is used 'git archive' > but peraphs 'repository' is more a standard definition for an SCM archive. > Just archive peraphs is too generic, also a tarball is an archive :-) Agreed. I personally think the word "archive" on this list came from people who have some degree of tla background. CVS and SVN people would have said repository. ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-08-17 19:53 Subject: Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0508172151390.17234%40wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: <7vll30wejs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> ``` Hi, On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Marco Costalba writes: > > > So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-) > > It would be more like "revision" is a concept represented (not > "referenced") by a commit object. Actually, I think it is "referenced", because the commit object contains a little metadata, and then only refs (pointers). > Agreed. I personally think the word "archive" on this list came > from people who have some degree of tla background. CVS and SVN > people would have said repository. I'll add it anyway. Ciao, Dscho ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-08-17 19:55 Subject: Re: git-format-patch + git-applymbox small issue Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.63.0508172153320.17234%40wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de In-Reply-To: <20050817175452.84541.qmail@web26306.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> ``` Hi, On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Marco Costalba wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > [...] > > > By the way, a very good and useful job. Thank you! While I think it is one of the less-fun and less-think jobs, it might be good to have it for people o look it up all the time. > So 'revision' is the struct and 'commit object' the pointer ;-) As I said in another mail: Yes! Ciao, Dscho ```