Re: [PATCH 0/8] "git apply --threeway"

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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 - After trying and failing to apply the patch text, we inspect our object
   database and see if there is a blob object that matches what is
   recorded on the "index" line of the patch as its preimage.

Just being curious: why is it called "index"?

I don't remember exactly, but I think it has something to do with the
"name"-ness of the hexdigit strings that can be used to identify objects
in the object store, i.e. the object names serving as indices.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/9694/focus=9794