On Friday 2006 December 15 11:27, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > $ git-ls-tree v1.0.0 > > 100644 blob 906e98492080d2fde9467a9970fc92d7a8cfeaf8 Makefile > > > > I'm a newbie: what's that number at the front? What's a blob? What's > > that great big number - I've only seen commit hashes that look like that, > > and that isn't one. Definitely not friendly. > > The number in front is octal mode of a file or directory. "blob" > is a file (or symbolic link), "tree" is a directory, all of this > can be found in git(7). Sorry, when I said "I'm a newbie", I meant "pretend I'm a newbie" :-) My point was that this is all too confusing for a newbie; the fact that you had to descend to talk about SHA-1 and blob hashes, really serves to strengthen my point. What does a non-developer care about hashes, blobs, trees, commits, or objects? In this case however, I withdrew my complaint because it's argued that git-ls-files is not the right tool for this purpose anyway. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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