From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Questions about git-rev-parse Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:54:32 +0000 Message-ID: <200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <20070228025258.GD2178@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 28 09:54:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMKa8-00072V-DP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:54:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752076AbXB1Iyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:54:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752077AbXB1Iyi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:54:38 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:24032 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752076AbXB1Iyh (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:54:37 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so486867nfa for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:54:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=o+usM3KoaFeCXmeM28DdsWk0MmFp+rpx96qeeswf36OxiyddM0HVeAaKUtubRghzv0Rlzy1dGronDWz5Bw8v3Rk8bz/nQvmpeSoEKT9Cs8snWwAX5C+SYuMJZy9OPvTUpBz4uVzq4LVErxjdwyXnJJVih/HkwJ2Z2xKbUEce1a0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=NhlL2i5E9g7x3bJVUcsRKfPU/4Kw72s8oLivuqr7OE8IIgwMa02PugRRFFVhdSFLZ5rfed+mRDjRy6L/GmuvD/wa1BFlEJDMX5AYfIaVT0lA8t6vzZX+auC/3RjN1fIhD/SFcovr/vT+oYz93kBKd48vWo/1LezrTVwfEHhmn8c= Received: by 10.49.57.1 with SMTP id j1mr3157785nfk.1172652875999; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:54:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 360run094l ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k24sm5032001nfc.2007.02.28.00.54.34; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:54:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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