On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:59:46PM -0700, W. Reilly Cooley, Esq. wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:25:06PM -0700, Matthew Berney wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance, but what is the Cederqvist? Is it a user manual, some
> > arcane CVS lore? I have seen many references to it here on the CVS digest.
>
> cvs.ps in the CVS source (and probably binary) distributions.
In other words, the authoritative CVS documentation that comes
with the package (doc/cvs.texinfo and all its derived formats).
Why not just refer to it as such? To call it "The Cederqvist"
instead implies that it is, as Mr. Berney suggested, "some arcane
CVS lore". It may acknowledge Per's important contribution at
some time in the distant past, but in the present it's merely
confusing to those who are not in the CVS "club".
Indeed, I'm glad to have someone finally confirm my theory that
"The Cederqvist" and cvs.info are one and the same -- and I've
been using CVS since version 1.2 or 1.3.
Technical terminology is one thing; jargon for its own sake risks
the charge of willful obscurantism.
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