Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261589AbVDJSzu (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:55:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbVDJSyg (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:54:36 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:62689 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261572AbVDJSw2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:52:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:50:55 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Linus Torvalds Cc: junkio@cox.net, rddunlap@osdl.org, ross@jose.lug.udel.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more git updates.. Message-Id: <20050410115055.2a6c26e8.pj@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <7vhdifcbmo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 32 Linus wrote: > It's a filesystem - although a > fairly strange one. Ah ha - that explains the read-tree and write-tree names. The read-tree pulls stuff out of this file system into your working files, clobbering local edits. This is like the read(2) system call, which clobbers stuff in your read buffer. The write-tree pushes stuff down into the file system, just like write(2) pushes data into the kernel. I was getting all kind of frustrated yesterday trying to use Linus's git commands, coming at these names with my SCM hat on. That way of thinking really doesn't work well here. I will have to look more closely at pasky's GIT toolkit if I want to see an SCM style interface. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/