On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:38:00PM +0200, Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Terminology question: Is there *any* kind of agreed-on name for the > identifiers you pass into git-rev-parse (like HEAD^2 or > master:test/foo.txt)? I called it "revision name" before, but that's wrong > for the "...:<path>" syntaxes, and "object identifier" is reserved for > hashes only (according to the glossary). If there no better suggestions, > I'll probably go for "extended identifiers", since rev-parse --help calls > this the "extended SHA1 syntax", and it also seems to be an unused term. `man git-rev-parse` calls them "revisions". Yes, even the commit:path ones. So I would use "revision", or if you introduce a new term, I would strongly suggest updating not just the glossary but git-rev-parse.txt as well. Thanks.
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