From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Questions about git-rev-parse
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:54:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271921110.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wednesday 2007 February 28 03:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So a "tree-ish" is not necessarily exactly a tree, but it has all the
> characteristics of a tree (by virtue of there being a well-defined 1:1
> relationship with a tree).
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. Then the happy
coincidence of the English idiom usage meaning "approximately" was just a
happy bonus.
Shocking: something geeky that didn't have an association with Lord of the
Rings. What will they think of next? :-)
Andy
--
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 2:23 Questions about git-rev-parse Theodore Ts'o
2007-02-28 2:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-28 2:52 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-28 3:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 6:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-28 8:54 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-02-28 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 3:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-01 2:16 ` Willhelm Busch
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