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Re: Questions about git-rev-parse

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2007, 08:54 UTC
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<200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 2007 February 28 03:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So a "tree-ish" is not necessarily exactly a tree, but it has all the
> characteristics of a tree (by virtue of there being a well-defined 1:1
> relationship with a tree).

Funny; I'd always guessed that it came from Lord of the Rings, which (I think) often mentioned "Ent-ish" as being the language of the trees. Then the happy coincidence of the English idiom usage meaning "approximately" was just a happy bonus.

Shocking: something geeky that didn't have an association with Lord of the 
Rings.  What will they think of next? :-)
Andy
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  1. Theodore Ts'oFeb 28, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 28, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoFeb 28, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 28, 2007
  5. Theodore TsoFeb 28, 2007
  6. Andy ParkinsFeb 28, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsFeb 28, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsFeb 28, 2007
  9. Willhelm BuschMar 1, 2007

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