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| author | Karissa McKelvey <karissa@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-06-05 18:39:45 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-06-05 18:39:45 -0700 |
| commit | d151454123ca20873534cfaa4c3fdd3870a49baf (patch) | |
| tree | f4d7f0aa1f6e62e77058f234cf5217a4df97fb88 /docs/terms.md | |
| parent | 8375164018e30c84fc109475efbdd87b28bd1627 (diff) | |
| download | dat-docs-d151454123ca20873534cfaa4c3fdd3870a49baf.tar.gz dat-docs-d151454123ca20873534cfaa4c3fdd3870a49baf.zip | |
update the sidebar and tutorial (#59)
* update sidebar and tutorial page
* remove default page
* add intro
* update intro section
* update top of install and fix links
* key concepts
* another attempt at intro
* cheeky
* update typos
* typo
* add joe's edits
* fix intro with edits
* fix links in intro
* double header on terminology
* move around, fix version control section
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diff --git a/docs/terms.md b/docs/terms.md index a8aa52e..f0425ce 100644 --- a/docs/terms.md +++ b/docs/terms.md @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ # Terminology -## Dat Terms - Terms specific to the Dat software. ### dat, Dat archive, archive @@ -10,10 +8,6 @@ A dat, or Dat archive, is a set of files and dat metadata (see [SLEEP](#sleep)). When you create a dat, you're creating a `.dat` folder to hold the metadata and the dat keys (a public and secret key). -### Dat Link or Dat Key - -Identifier for a dat, e.g. `dat://ab3ed4f...`. These are 64 character hashes with the `dat://` protocol prefix. Anyone with the Dat link can download and re-share files in a dat. - ### Secret Key Dat links are the public part of a key pair. Users that have the secret key are able to write updates to a dat. @@ -82,7 +76,7 @@ The discovery key is a hashed public key. The discovery key is used to find peer A feed is a term we use interchangeably with the term "append-only log". It’s the lowest level component of Dat. For each Dat, there are two feeds - the metadata and the content. -Feeds are created with hypercore. +Feeds are created with hypercore. ### Metadata Feed |