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

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2008, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490802201154t53ff4195xba055b5d42a3759c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vskzn4dpz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Feb 20, 2008 2:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Yeah, that "aka" is still disturbing.
>
>         [url A]
>                 aka = B
>
> would read to me: "A is also known as B" but that is clearly not
> what it means here.  You would want this:
>
>         [url A]
>                 aka = B
>                 aka = C
>
> to mean "B is also known as A.  C is also known as A."  IOW, you
> are using it backwards, because their name is more official and
> you are using your own unofficial name to call it.
>
> Sorry, but I cannot think of a better way to resolve this, other
> than by spelling the keyword backwards, but that still makes it
> "aka".

I dunno, I find this eminently clear:

        [url A]
                alias = B
                alias = C

B and C are aliases for A. How else could you read that?

j.