From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:32 GMT Subject: Re: Questions about git-rev-parse Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > > Funny; I'd always guessed that it came from Lord of the Rings, which (I think) > often mentioned "Ent-ish" as being the language of the trees. Yeah, we for a while had that overly geekish thing, but we didn't use "entish", we used just "ent". Because an "ent" is "tree-ish". So when we used "ent", we didn't have the "-ish" there at all, and at some point all the ents got search-and-replaced into "tree-ish". But "treeish" actually came before, and the "ent" thing was just a temporary pun that got dropped. Looking at the git log, the first time we use "tree-ish" is fairly early: apparently May 5, 2005. Commit ac4e0869 introduces it instead of (probably because the tag part got added, and to explain that we only care about the resulting tree and won't actually *use* any of the commit/tag information except to get to it). Linus