From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: "Daniel Barkalow" <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:58:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxvn4cyh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76718490802201149w5a7c0b88udef968f4083190ea@mail.gmail.com> (Jay Soffian's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:49:06 -0500")
"Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
> On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-20 18:43 [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-20 19:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-20 19:24 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-20 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-20 19:54 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-20 20:42 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-20 22:02 ` しらいしななこ
2008-02-20 22:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-21 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-21 1:26 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-21 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-21 2:19 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-21 5:04 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-21 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-25 4:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-25 4:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-25 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-25 6:35 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-21 16:31 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-02-20 19:49 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-20 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-20 20:22 ` Jay Soffian
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