On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 01:32:51AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Torgil Svensson" <torgil.svensson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On 5/21/07, Martin Waitz <tali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Unify naming of plumbing dirlink/gitlink concept: > >> > >> perl -pi -e 's/dirlink/gitlink/g' -e 's/DIRLNK/GITLINK/g' > >> --- > > > > Does this mean that the link doesn't necessarily has to be represented > > as a directory (even though current code does it) ? > > I do not think the patch has that much deep meaning. > > Personally I think the patch is similar to renaming "cache" used > in the code to "index" --- needless code shuffling that does not > buy you anything. FWIW, I seriously considered making a patch for that several times - but always found something better to do; that is, it is not so big an itch for me to scratch unless I'd be really bored and miss some goot git@ flamewar badly ;-). However, I still think that using "cache" in the code is a mistake - it's confusing and inconsistent. (BTW, the other thing I hate about the codebase are the filenames. When I want to look at the source of some command, I have to try THREE names: git-something.<tab> (sh, perl, ...), builtin-something.c and something.c. I wish I could just write git-something.<tab>. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - 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
