From: Peter Williams Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:17:36 GMT Subject: Re: Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.) Message-ID: <425EFA10.1020608@bigpond.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com> Steven Cole wrote: > 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 -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce