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 <tree/commit> (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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html