Re: [PATCH 0/6] doc: replace "alice" and "bob" examples

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I suggested in [1] that the "alice" and "bob" examples in our
> > documentation would be better written without a reference to such
> > fictional characters, for reasons that have nothing to do with trying
> > to bend over backwards to avoid any reference to people's gender. It
> > just makes for better documentation.
>
> I actually do not mind cast of characters with concrete names,
> especially when there are more than three parties involved and
> having names for them help clarify the description.  But I agree
> with you that Alice and Bob should be reserved for situations where
> appearance of Eve would reasonably be anticipated, or the use of
> these two names become distracting to those who happen to be aware
> how these characters are often used in CS literature.
>
> Perhaps s/Alice/Tabby/ and s/Bob/Fido/ or something like that ;-)?

  i look forward to the renaming of "git" to something more innocuous
and palatable because, somewhere, someone could conceivably,
hypothetically, theoretically take exception to it.

  seriously, can we start a second mailing list where people want to
talk about, you know, version control?

rday