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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, francois@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow HTTP proxy to be overridden in config
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:09:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4753C7AD.3000406@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhcj387jh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> [Footnote]
> 
> *1* git(7) calls "git" itself as "git potty".  Is this word still used?
> I also notice that Andreas's name is misspelled there.


AFAIR I sort of invented that to disambiguate git-the-program from
git-the-project while working on writing the program in C. I haven't
heard/seen it a lot since then, except on a few occasions where it
helped serve that same purpose.

I also misspelled my own name in that patch. Perhaps it's time I
corrected that.

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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: [PATCH] Correct typo in Documentation/git.txt

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 9ff4659..6c98ab2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Authors
 -------
 * git's founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
 * The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
-* The git potty was written by Andres Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.
+* The git potty was written by Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.
 * General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 Documentation
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-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-23  0:07 [PATCH] Allow HTTP proxy to be overridden in config Sam Vilain
2007-11-23  0:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-23  3:35   ` Sam Vilain
2007-12-01  2:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-03  9:09       ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-12-03 11:13         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-03 21:48       ` Sam Vilain
2007-12-04  8:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04  9:22           ` Sam Vilain

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