From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:58:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files Message-ID: <7vfxvn4cyh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <76718490802201149w5a7c0b88udef968f4083190ea@mail.gmail.com> "Jay Soffian" writes: > On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> 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. Read the first line you quoted, and think again.