* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GeunSik Lim wrote: > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Commit-ID: efb3d17240d80e27508d238809168120fe4b93a4 > >> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/efb3d17240d80e27508d238809168120fe4b93a4 > > > > I have one question about "tip-bot" and "-tip" word. > > "tip" word is abbreviation. Can anyone explain me meaning of the "tip" word? > > Sorry for trivial question. > > But I always wondered about this abbreviation in private. -tip is to signal the 'cutting edge/summit' of the trees we are maintaining and working on. "define:tip" on google gives: tip: [...] peak: the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit" > T: Thomas > I: Ingo > P: hpa That secondary meaning is valid too ;-) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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