Git terminology

From: Sébastien Pierre <sebastien@xprima.com>
Date: 2006-03-29 21:21:13
Hi all,

In the process of learning git, and browsing the docs, I realized that many particular terms are used, but I had difficulties finding their definitions. 

Among those I found a bit arcane, there are (in no particular order) "refspec", "rebase", "rewound", "pickaxe", "refnames", "objectnames" ,"refnames", "fast-forward update".

Also, doing a "grep -rohE '<[a-z\-]+>' * | sort | uniq" in git source tree gave me the list of "parameter types" for git commands, where some would benefit from a formal definition : <base>, <blob>, <branch>, <branchname>, <comitish>, <tree>, <tree-ish>, <head>, <headsha>, <refspec>, and so on. Of course, some of these terms are already explained in the man pages, but it would be nice to have a "git terminlogy reference".

If some of you are willing to detail/explain/define those terms (and some others not mentioned here), I would be glad to collect the definitions and make a "git terminology" document.

 -- Sébastien
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