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Re: Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.)

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 14, 2005, 20:53 UTC
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<20050414205329.GF22699@pasky.ji.cz>
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<200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com>

Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:42:16PM CEST, I got a letter where Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> told me that...

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> On Thursday 14 April 2005 01:40 pm, Andrew Timberlake-Newell wrote:
> > Zach Welch pontificated:
> > > I imagine quite a few folks expect something not entirely unlike an SCM
> > > to emerge from these current efforts. Moreover, Petr's 'git' scripts
> > > wrap your "filesystem" plumbing to that very end.
> > > 
> > > To avoid confusion, I think it would be better to distinguish the two
> > > layers, perhaps by calling the low-level plumbing... 'gitfs', of course.
> > 
> > Or perhaps to come up with a name (or at least nickname) for the SCM.
> > 
> > GitMaster?
> > 
> 
> Cogito.  "Git inside" can be the first slogan.
What about tig?
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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 15 of 20 in “Handling renames.”
  1. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  3. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  4. Ingo MolnarApr 14, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  6. Ingo MolnarApr 14, 2005
  7. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005
  8. David MansfieldApr 14, 2005
  9. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 14, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  12. Zach WelchApr 14, 2005
  13. Andrew Timberlake-NewellApr 14, 2005
  14. Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.)Steven Cole, Apr 14, 2005
  15. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2005
  16. H. Peter AnvinApr 14, 2005
  17. Petr BaudisApr 14, 2005
  18. Peter WilliamsApr 14, 2005
  19. Daniel BarkalowApr 14, 2005
  20. David WoodhouseApr 14, 2005

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