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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2008, 19:49 UTC
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On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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> This order of values is definitely the right thing, for the mapping
> reasons you saw. And I think "aka" is generally used to indicate
> additional non-canonical names for something with an official name (see,
> for example, IMDB's usage). I haven't been able to come up with anything
> better to indicate "this is a name that I will recognize but not use
> myself".

I think the word you want is "alias", isn't it? I've never really seen aka used in a technical sense, whereas alias is used quite often (URL aliases, DNS aliases, etc). So:

url.$canonical_name.alias = $local_name.
$0.02.
j.
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  3. Daniel BarkalowFeb 20, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  5. Jay SoffianFeb 20, 2008
  6. Daniel BarkalowFeb 20, 2008
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  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 20, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2008
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  11. Linus TorvaldsFeb 21, 2008
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