From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:54:49 +0200 Message-ID: <20080601215449.GC29404@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <1212241932-28605-1-git-send-email-LeWiemann@gmail.com> <1212290243-19393-1-git-send-email-LeWiemann@gmail.com> <1212290243-19393-2-git-send-email-LeWiemann@gmail.com> <4842DE78.7000006@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Re7H+V5lQR2Zv/pu" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Lea Wiemann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 01 23:55:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2vWi-0003I5-8O for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:55:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751705AbYFAVyv (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:54:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751580AbYFAVyv (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:54:51 -0400 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([193.202.89.103]:41858 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751103AbYFAVyv (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:54:51 -0400 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961A91B254C; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5EB446A9; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:37:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 198C31190A46; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4842DE78.7000006@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --Re7H+V5lQR2Zv/pu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Lea Wiemann = wrote: > Terminology question: Is there *any* kind of agreed-on name for the=20 > identifiers you pass into git-rev-parse (like HEAD^2 or=20 > master:test/foo.txt)? I called it "revision name" before, but that's wro= ng=20 > for the "...:" syntaxes, and "object identifier" is reserved for=20 > hashes only (according to the glossary). If there no better suggestions,= =20 > I'll probably go for "extended identifiers", since rev-parse --help calls= =20 > this the "extended SHA1 syntax", and it also seems to be an unused term. `man git-rev-parse` calls them "revisions". Yes, even the commit:path ones. So I would use "revision", or if you introduce a new term, I would strongly suggest updating not just the glossary but git-rev-parse.txt as well. Thanks. --Re7H+V5lQR2Zv/pu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhDGqkACgkQe81tAgORUJYICgCeOHiMDGNxku8Nt7aEyzvpTW9x HusAoJXCndcQ75z0IKIyQ4kMBZ8rU3/O =YqtP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Re7H+V5lQR2Zv/pu--