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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Cc:     Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>, git@vger.kernel.org,
        pclouds@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/28] attr: (re)introduce git_check_attr() and struct git_attr_check
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        <20161011165936.GA9085@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:42:19 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20161011165936.GA9085@google.com> (Brandon Williams's message of
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Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> On 10/10, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>> 
>> A common pattern to check N attributes for many paths is to
>> 
>>  (1) prepare an array A of N git_attr_check_elem items;
>>  (2) call git_attr() to intern the N attribute names and fill A;
>
> Does the word 'intern' here mean internalize?  It took me a few reads to
> stop picturing college students running around an office :)

The verb comes from Lisp world where you "intern" a string to make a
symbol.