[PATCH] help: add "glossary" topic

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Tue Jun 15 16:22:52 CDT 2010


Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

> 2) I don't have strong feelings about ALL CAPS. If people don't want
> it, I can change back. I suppose for consistency, references to the
> defns should also be in caps, but I'll wait to see what people think
> about ALL CAPS, if anything.

I would like us to limit all caps to when we shout at the user. That is,
we should not use it at all.

> Ok. How about
>
> CHANGESET, CHILD
>   A changeset which is defined in the graph as having descended from
>   at most two parent changesets.

That sentence matches all changesets. Plus, I don't think a changeset is
"defined in the graph".

>   It is the converse of parent changeset: if P is a parent of C, then
>   C is a child of P. There is no limit to the number of children that
>   a changeset may have.

I like that part.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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