From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Derrick Stolee" <dstolee@microsoft.com>,
"Taylor Blau" <me@ttaylorr.com>,
"Dr . Adam Nielsen" <admin@in-ici.net>,
"Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Documentation: change "folder" to "directory"
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:08:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo87d0yfg.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1635094161.git.martin.agren@gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:09:14 +0200")
Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:
> It is my understanding that we prefer "directory" over "folder" when
> discussing the file system concept. (Whereas "folder" is commonly used
> for the GUI view of such a directory, or for an IMAP folder.)
>
> I stumbled on a mention of the ".git folder" when going through the
> doc-diff between v2.33.0 and 9d530dc002 ("The fourteenth batch",
> 2021-10-18), and started looking around. This series is the outcome.
>
> Based on master.
>
> Martin Ågren (3):
> git-multi-pack-index.txt: change "folder" to "directory"
> gitignore.txt: change "folder" to "directory"
> gitweb.txt: change "folder" to "directory"
Thanks. Being consistent is good.
We should have been a bit more careful when we reviewed the changes
that introduced these.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-25 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-24 17:09 [PATCH 0/3] Documentation: change "folder" to "directory" Martin Ågren
2021-10-24 17:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-multi-pack-index.txt: " Martin Ågren
2021-10-24 17:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] gitignore.txt: " Martin Ågren
2021-10-24 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] gitweb.txt: " Martin Ågren
2021-10-25 9:19 ` [PATCH 0/3] Documentation: " Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-26 6:02 ` Martin Ågren
2021-10-27 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-25 15:31 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-10-25 18:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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