Subject: Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:44:27 -0500

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> [email-masked] (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:
> > +
> > +    # This should never happen, the same format has been used since
> > +    # CVS was spawned
> > +    $str =~ s/^(.)//;
> > +    die "invalid password format $1" unless $1 eq 'A';
> 
> I do not quite understand what "spawn" means in this sentence.

spawned: since it came from the depths of hell and cursed all
         developers, until the day Git was born.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.