On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Andy Levy wrote: >... > probably suggested it for git as well. And isn't there a (possibly > apocryphal) story about the "blame" (either in CVS or SVN) being > aliased to "annotate" and "praise" because a manager somewhere didn't > like the negative connotation of "blame"?
Nope. No managers involved. We just thought it would be funny, and in a touchy-feely way to make Subversion more "positive". You "praise" people's changes, rather than "blame" them :-) [ and note: CVS has "annotate"; "blame" came from Mozilla's web-based repository viewer (MXR?) ] > That said, I agree with everyone here, changing the name on a > 13-year-old project is not necessary. I'm sure the name and its > spelling was considered thoroughly before it was selected. Apache Subversion actually started as "Inversion" around December 1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted "Subversion" as a rename. It had "version" in the name, and we *were* trying to subvert the CVS installations/community, so the name fit extremely well :-) It became "Apache Subversion" in February 2010. Cheers, -g
