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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	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, 3 Dec 2007 11:13:24 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712031113030.27959@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4753C7AD.3000406@op5.se>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 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 always spell it "git wrapper".

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-03 11:14 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
2007-12-03 11:13         ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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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