On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Christopher <ctubbsii(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 4:43 AM Michal Novotny
<clime(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Looking at the dist-git README further reinforces this impression. The
>> > first sentence says: "DistGit (Distributed Git) is Git with additional
>> > data storage". My initial reaction to that is "so, it is
basically
>> > just git". My second reaction is "why does additional data
storage
>> > somehow make git (a distributed version control system) even _more_
>> > distributed?".
>> >
>>
>> I might be misremembering, but I think Dist-Git was originally short
>> for "Distribution Git". It was the first attempt to marry a binary
>> store to Git, predating git-annex and Git LFS by several years.
>>
>
> Ha, okay, actually, "distribution Git" makes more sense. Thank you!
>
> I've changed it in the README.
>
>
Which README? Where is it located?
Here:
https://github.com/release-engineering/dist-git
I agree that using "Fedora Package Source Repository"
instead of just "Fedora DistGit" is clearer (but also longer
so I, personally, like your Glossary suggestion the best).
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