Re: looking for one word to encompass trunk, tag and branch

On Aug 17, 2009, at 14:52, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:

> I'm writing some scripts to automate certain repetitive subversion
> tasks and am trying to come up with a term to encompass trunk, tag or
> branch. For example:
>
> svn://foo/trunk/a/b/c -- is some folder inside the trunk. The trunk is
> at svn://foo/trunk
> svn://foo/branches/1.x/a/b/c -- the branch is at svn://foo/branches/
> 1.x
> svn://foo/tags/1.0/a/b/c -- the tag is at svn://foo/tags/1.0
>
> I'd like to be able, in all three cases to say the *mumble* of <url>
> is at <shorter-url>.
>
> What should I use in place of *mumble*? [snip]

Not humorous but how about:

"The root of <url> is <shorter-url>."

"The tree containing <url> is rooted at <shorter-url>."

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Received on 2009-08-18 02:44:49 CEST