X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/651acf8b1490ebdfe15c11fde3792c13fb118f31..1fe88b4afd8ad8e647956e1295a58e2ee6b338b3:/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn index 97ae40438..941976789 100644 --- a/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn @@ -1 +1,7 @@ What directory is the 'working copy'? There can be two interpretations: the current dir and the .git dir. + +> It is fairly common terminology amoung all version control systems to use +> "working copy" to refer to a checkout from version control, including +> copies of all the versioned files, and whatever VCS-specific cruft that +> entails. So, a working copy is everything you get when you `git clone` +> a repository. --[[Joey]]