Hi Junio, On 09/07/2022 22:34, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The first patch [1/4] is to show OBD as an abbreviation to avoid a UNA [0] > Avoiding unnecessary TLA is even better than avoiding. As I didn't > see in the other three patches that we need to use the OBD acronym, > perhaps we can omit this step? > This came from seeing `ODB` in a couple of tech docs (commit-graph and parallel-checkout) and an 'odb' option in pack-redundant, which I should have noted in the commit message. I'll update the commit message to clarify that we are using that TLA, though we aren't always consistent in our distinctions between concepts and implementation in many places (e.g. Object Store vs Repository; Staging area..; etc.) TLAs, UNAs, etc. have been a bug-bear of mine from doing large engineering collaborations. -- Philip (for completeness;-) ODB Object Data Base. TLA Three Letter Abbreviation. UNA Un-Named Abbreviation.
