Re: [PATCH 05/12] user-manual: rewrite index discussion

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On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:12:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I would rather see you not say "dates" here.  It is there as a
> part of cached stat information together with ownership and
> inumber to detect changes, but not part of what will be written
> out, as you mention later; you already explicitly say
> "additional information" in point #2 below, so omission of
> "dates" from here would be consistent with it.

Yes, thanks for catching that, I must have intended to write "modes",
not "dates" there.

> While I agree dropping "aka dircache" from the description, I
> think we should say that this is exactly the same thing as what
> used to be called "cache" and hint that you might still see it
> referred to by that name elsewhere (but not in this document),
> because google and mail archive do not forget and people do not
> update pages they put on the web.

Makes sense.  Think it'd be OK just to stick that in a note at the end?

--b.
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