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From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: Andrew Timberlake-Newell 
	<Andrew.Timberlake-Newell@AllianceOneInc.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, 'Zach Welch' <zw@superlucidity.net>,
	'Linus Torvalds' <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:17:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425EFA10.1020608@bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504141442.17235.elenstev@mesatop.com>

Steven Cole wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 01:40 pm, Andrew Timberlake-Newell wrote:
> 
>>Zach Welch pontificated:
>>
>>>I imagine quite a few folks expect something not entirely unlike an SCM
>>>to emerge from these current efforts. Moreover, Petr's 'git' scripts
>>>wrap your "filesystem" plumbing to that very end.
>>>
>>>To avoid confusion, I think it would be better to distinguish the two
>>>layers, perhaps by calling the low-level plumbing... 'gitfs', of course.
>>
>>Or perhaps to come up with a name (or at least nickname) for the SCM.
>>
>>GitMaster?
>>
> 
> 
> Cogito.  "Git inside" can be the first slogan.
> 
> Differentiating the SCM built on top of git from git itself is probably worthwhile
> to avoid confusion.  Other SCMs may be developed later, built on git, and these
> can come up with their own clever names.

And the logo could be a dove which, as everybody knows, coos.

Peter
-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  -- Ambrose Bierce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-14 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-14 17:54 Handling renames David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 19:09   ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 18:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-14 18:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 18:58     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-14 19:20       ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-14 19:21     ` David Mansfield
2005-04-14 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 18:48   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-14 18:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 19:22     ` Zach Welch
2005-04-14 19:40       ` Andrew Timberlake-Newell
2005-04-14 20:42         ` Naming the SCM (was Re: Handling renames.) Steven Cole
2005-04-14 20:53           ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 20:58             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-14 21:01               ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-14 23:17           ` Peter Williams [this message]
2005-04-14 22:23 ` Handling renames Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-14 22:46   ` David Woodhouse

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