Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 10/10, Stefan Beller wrote: >> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> 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.