a few more observations on the book

[Ben Collins-Sussman]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
> ch 1:
>
> - the paragraph describing creating the subdirectories "trunk",
> "branches" and "tags" seems misleadingly adamant that these
> directories should be created and that they should have *exactly*
> those names.  maybe you clarify later that they don't actually have to
> called precisely that, but readers might get the impression here that
> there's something magic and mandatory about those names.
>

Fixed, thanks.


> ch 2:
>
> "Working Copies"
>
> - this might be a good place to offhandedly mention that a working
> copy is equivalent to what others would call a "sandbox", and leave it
> at that
>

See previous mail.


> - you might also casually mention that you can have multiple working
> copies going at once.  yes, i know that's trivially obvious, but some
> readers might not pick up on that.  (i only mention that since you use
> the phrase "Your working copy" as if there is only one of them.)


Fixed, thanks.