From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] init: allow alternate backends to be set for new repos Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:31:14 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1449102921-7707-1-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> <1449102921-7707-14-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> <567AA2DF.1020408@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Michael Haggerty , David Turner , Git Mailing List To: Duy Nguyen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 07 04:31:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aH1IZ-0006dc-Lc for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:31:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752275AbcAGDbg (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:31:36 -0500 Received: from mail-vk0-f42.google.com ([209.85.213.42]:32772 "EHLO mail-vk0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751616AbcAGDbf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2016 22:31:35 -0500 Received: by mail-vk0-f42.google.com with SMTP id i129so29291766vkb.0 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:31:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=spearce.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=lC+cK5dILDJh6L6dshs7FcuZO9/THHoq+n1VCMkwPwA=; b=NlBuEclRb09Ktxn7X7rOO1IUSKIC/pIkU3KrdZUVHQ2rT5ZEoYM2T6kdj0HzTwBQZy G0n34Rfl13P+7iTXqO0UQbkw1L7QzvKHfzxuP9NNzVsmXxY+a5X+vE/racAJxXhqmzwU TOsA54IParLACg3ni+Euw86VNtqr+3OOco8SY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=lC+cK5dILDJh6L6dshs7FcuZO9/THHoq+n1VCMkwPwA=; b=gnQNkk32dBTrbuF2UmDQEpH/+tozvlY7L2cqRngRBQPdJmTZrzD9cc3a6bRZPrVh0F 4kGYvMr0iVRHOvKMdlHtwXCbRLqItSREUpMKKdMYRLeflOflDt1mwI7zEW7to6FSwmfy TZ0g/2kLSFR2G5YH1k/7U9OISZITBVGDA+ewJCRFueJ8Opw95+/odCU82ByLW8EQfIBK uiUiPLieGHHspZolJATKp3LB7UVUux8ZNvg/OE59rIvfSJdJDYM3w25t3Ia0bPPpNqTX h/G9bfZlY1cLKhnt2BQeDqtzvniPbX1m0+6cfjFn6htz8UTIG3pT8vxD0OLhJcD+RDOT Nd+A== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlA7I2asyFv/aRpg2lUj4kWmW0YSj5PkGsvVGF2kZFYNXZhyM/E4B5IBIfbt20ocYy9uU5MkUUd+cO/xdCxmGrFU3jbxw== X-Received: by 10.31.149.3 with SMTP id x3mr6145422vkd.46.1452137493847; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:31:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.97.65 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Jan 2016 19:31:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> On 12/03/2015 01:35 AM, David Turner wrote: >>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt >>> index 8174d27..9ea6753 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt >>> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS >>> 'git init' [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=] >>> [--separate-git-dir ] >>> [--shared[=]] [directory] >>> - >>> + [--refs-backend-type=] >> >> ISTM that "backend" (used here in this option name, and in the manpage) >> is not such a meaningful term to users. Could we pick a less obscure >> term? E.g., maybe "--ref-storage="? > > From an (ex-)translator point of view, storage is also easier to > translate than the technical term "backend". I know we do not > translate option names, but whatever term you use usually show up in > some user-facing messages that need translating. But I do prefer > backend in source code, I think it expresses the idea much better than > storage. And JGit calls these things RefDatabases. Because Java. Also, its a table of ref -> SHA-1. And you put tables into databases. Or something.