From 036f81997c3ed144236a2aa7bb546df1a87f0c81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:10:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] user-manual: rename "git internals" to "git concepts" "git internals" sounds like something only git developers must know about, but this stuff should be of wider interest. Rename the chapter and give it a slightly friendlier introduction. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index f7457ef487..09d01817c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ has that commit at all). Since the object name is computed as a hash over the contents of the commit, you are guaranteed that the commit can never change without its name also changing. -In fact, in <<git-internals>> we shall see that everything stored in git +In fact, in <<git-concepts>> we shall see that everything stored in git history, including file data and directory contents, is stored in an object with a name that is a hash of its contents. @@ -2708,12 +2708,16 @@ See gitlink:git-config[1] for more details on the configuration options mentioned above. -[[git-internals]] -Git internals -============= +[[git-concepts]] +Git concepts +============ -Git depends on two fundamental abstractions: the "object database", and -the "current directory cache" aka "index". +Git is built on a small number of simple but powerful ideas. While it +is possible to get things done without understanding them, you will find +git much more intuitive if you do. + +We start with the most important, the <<def_object_database,object +database>> and the <<def_index,index>>. [[the-object-database]] The Object Database