Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:50:55 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: more git updates.. |
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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.
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