From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Questions about git-rev-parse Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20070228025258.GD2178@thunk.org> <200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano To: Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 28 17:00:38 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 1HMRE9-000401-4e for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:00:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751969AbXB1QAS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751980AbXB1QAS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:59171 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969AbXB1QAQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:16 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1SG0BhB018876 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l1SG0AUV019087; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:10 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200702280854.32440.andyparkins@gmail.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.441 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.119__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.176 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > > 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. Yeah, we for a while had that overly geekish thing, but we didn't use "entish", we used just "ent". Because an "ent" is "tree-ish". So when we used "ent", we didn't have the "-ish" there at all, and at some point all the ents got search-and-replaced into "tree-ish". But "treeish" actually came before, and the "ent" thing was just a temporary pun that got dropped. Looking at the git log, the first time we use "tree-ish" is fairly early: apparently May 5, 2005. Commit ac4e0869 introduces it instead of (probably because the tag part got added, and to explain that we only care about the resulting tree and won't actually *use* any of the commit/tag information except to get to it). Linus