From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Williams Subject: Re: Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:17:36 +1000 Message-ID: <425EFA10.1020608@bigpond.net.au> References: <002701c54129$da2ffdd0$9b11a8c0@allianceoneinc.com> <200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Timberlake-Newell , git@vger.kernel.org, 'Zach Welch' , 'Linus Torvalds' X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 15 01:15:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMDXj-0005RO-J9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:14:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261643AbVDNXRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:17:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261644AbVDNXRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:17:54 -0400 Received: from gizmo03ps.bigpond.com ([144.140.71.13]:49597 "HELO gizmo03ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261643AbVDNXRk (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:17:40 -0400 Received: (qmail 18199 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2005 23:17:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmam10.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.97) by gizmo03ps.bigpond.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2005 23:17:36 -0000 Received: from cpe-147-10-132-202.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([147.10.132.202]) by psmam10.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 216/28221933) with SMTP id 28221933; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:17:36 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Steven Cole In-Reply-To: <200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Steven Cole wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 01:40 pm, Andrew Timberlake-Newell wrote: > >>Zach Welch pontificated: >> >>>I imagine quite a few folks expect something not entirely unlike an SCM >>>to emerge from these current efforts. Moreover, Petr's 'git' scripts >>>wrap your "filesystem" plumbing to that very end. >>> >>>To avoid confusion, I think it would be better to distinguish the two >>>layers, perhaps by calling the low-level plumbing... 'gitfs', of course. >> >>Or perhaps to come up with a name (or at least nickname) for the SCM. >> >>GitMaster? >> > > > Cogito. "Git inside" can be the first slogan. > > Differentiating the SCM built on top of git from git itself is probably worthwhile > to avoid confusion. Other SCMs may be developed later, built on git, and these > can come up with their own clever names. And the logo could be a dove which, as everybody knows, coos. Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce