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

From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Apr 14, 2005, 23:17 UTC
Message-ID: <425EFA10.1020608@bigpond.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com>

Steven Cole wrote:

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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.
> 
> Differentiating the SCM built on top of git from git itself is probably worthwhile
> to avoid confusion.  Other SCMs may be developed later, built on git, and these
> can come up with their own clever names.

And the logo could be a dove which, as everybody knows, coos.

Peter

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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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