On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:45:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > One related thing is that there are few mentions of "idx file" to > refer to "pack index" (e.g. show-index and verify-pack documentation > pages); I think this was an attempt to disambiguate "pack index" > from "the Index", but as long as we spell it "pack index", I think > it should be OK, so while we are at it we may want to fix them. We > can leave "pack .idx file" as-is, but rewriting it to "pack index > file" or just "pack index" may be OK as long as it is clear from the > context. > > "git show-index" has this in SYNOPSIS: > > 'git show-index' < idx-file > > It probably should become > > 'git show-index' < <pack-index>
That makes "pack-file" make more sense to me. It is not "the abstract concept of a packfile", but "the file with the .pack extension" (just as "idx-file" is "the file with the .idx extension"). They are the same thing if you think about it, of course, but you might choose one over the other depending on the context. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
