On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 14:20 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > I think the word he had in mind was "coalesce". > As Git users typically have a quite good idea what a "merge" is, I'd > prefer that word anyway. I don't like that so much, given that "merge" has quite a specific meaning. But not really that fussed. In this case it's more like a 'gc' or 'repack'; an internal reshuffle of an index to make it a single one and not many. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html