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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
