From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:44:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver
Message-ID: <20071214054427.GE14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4t9x2lw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:
> > +
> > +    # This should never happen, the same format has been used since
> > +    # CVS was spawned
> > +    $str =~ s/^(.)//;
> > +    die "invalid password format $1" unless $1 eq 'A';
> 
> I do not quite understand what "spawn" means in this sentence.

spawned: since it came from the depths of hell and cursed all
         developers, until the day Git was born.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.