From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:05:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] rebase -i: update functions to use a flags parameter
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In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0201MB19938A1581F799CB9D48AE999C3D0@HE1PR0201MB1993.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>

"Kerry, Richard" <richard.kerry@atos.net> writes:

> "Shorted" is what happens when you put a piece of wire across the terminals of a battery ... (bang, smoke, etc).
> It's short for "short-circuited".

Or it is what you do to something that you sell and that you yet do
not own, expecting that you can later buy it cheaper, allowing you
to pocket the difference ;-).