Chris Pressey wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:32:25 +0200
> Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>
>>-On [20050420 12:02], Thomas E. Spanjaard (tgen@netphreax.net) wrote:
>>
>>>Does 'backport' sound any good?
>>
>>Ow, nice and generic, and not an acronym!
>>
>>+1
>
>
> Agreed. I like 'backport', or maybe 'backmerge'.
>
> I think the reason MFC has "wordness" in FreeBSD is because it's so
> darned common, because of the branched development model. In DragonFly
> it should be correspondingly less frequent, so the only real trick is
> to stop saying it out of habit :)
>
> -Chris
Well I remember that the first time I encountered MFC and asked what it
was, they explained it that it was a _backport_ from the head to
whatever branch it was in the context of the sentence.
So backport definitely hits high on my "uncomplicated word list" :-)
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mph