From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge-one-file: remove empty directories
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:08:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4380BB97.7070407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511200901450.13959@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Even VMS seems to have it (although if git is ever ported to VMS, I'll
> just have to shoot myself. I used VMS in -88, and the scars are _still_
> fresh).
>
Yeah, well, WinNT is basically the successor to VMS. (I have heard from
several ex-DECers that WNT was done on top of a stolen copy of what was
supposed-to-have-been the successor to VMS.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-20 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <17279.1674.22992.607091@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20051119140736.GA24901@lst.de>
2005-11-19 18:24 ` please pull powerpc-merge.git Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 4:14 ` [PATCH] merge-one-file: remove empty directories Junio C Hamano
2005-11-20 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-20 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-11-21 14:22 ` Alex Riesen
2005-11-21 0:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-20 4:14 ` [PATCH] merge-recursive::removeFile: " Junio C Hamano
2005-11-20 11:51 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
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