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From: "Sébastien Pierre" <sebastien@xprima.com>
To: Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Git terminology
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:21:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060329052113.6a773480.sebastien@xprima.com> (raw)

Hi all,

In the process of learning git, and browsing the docs, I realized that many particular terms are used, but I had difficulties finding their definitions. 

Among those I found a bit arcane, there are (in no particular order) "refspec", "rebase", "rewound", "pickaxe", "refnames", "objectnames" ,"refnames", "fast-forward update".

Also, doing a "grep -rohE '<[a-z\-]+>' * | sort | uniq" in git source tree gave me the list of "parameter types" for git commands, where some would benefit from a formal definition : <base>, <blob>, <branch>, <branchname>, <comitish>, <tree>, <tree-ish>, <head>, <headsha>, <refspec>, and so on. Of course, some of these terms are already explained in the man pages, but it would be nice to have a "git terminlogy reference".

If some of you are willing to detail/explain/define those terms (and some others not mentioned here), I would be glad to collect the definitions and make a "git terminology" document.

 -- Sébastien

             reply	other threads:[~2006-03-29 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-29 10:21 Sébastien Pierre [this message]
2006-03-29 15:31 ` Git terminology J. Bruce Fields
2006-03-29 15:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-29 16:11   ` Sébastien Pierre

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