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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avar@cpan.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, martyn@catalyst.net.nz,
	martin@catalyst.net.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:44:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214054427.GE14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4t9x2lw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:
> > +
> > +    # This should never happen, the same format has been used since
> > +    # CVS was spawned
> > +    $str =~ s/^(.)//;
> > +    die "invalid password format $1" unless $1 eq 'A';
> 
> I do not quite understand what "spawn" means in this sentence.

spawned: since it came from the depths of hell and cursed all
         developers, until the day Git was born.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  4:08 [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-14  5:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14  5:44   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-12-14  6:55   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-14  8:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-14 21:08       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-18  9:41         ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-18 20:39           ` Martin Langhoff
     [not found]           ` <46a038f90712181238p7529a02bmde21c89956a3f641@mail.gmail.com>
2007-12-18 21:10             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-18 21:37               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-07  0:48           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2008-03-07 16:13             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2008-06-19 17:38               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2008-06-19 19:00                 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-06-19 19:21                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-19 20:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-15  2:45                   ` [PATCH 0/6] git-cvsserver: password " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:45                   ` [PATCH 1/6] git-cvsserver: authentication " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15 15:06                     ` [PATCH 1/6 v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 2/6] git-cvsserver: use a password file cvsserver pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15 15:07                     ` [PATCH 2/6 v2] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 3/6] git-cvsserver: indent & clean up authdb code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 4/6] git-cvsserver: Improved error handling for pserver Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 5/6] git-cvsserver: document making a password without htpasswd Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-05-15  2:46                   ` [PATCH 6/6] git-cvsserver: test for pserver authentication support Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

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