Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/28] attr: (re)introduce git_check_attr() and struct git_attr_check

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:42:19 -0700

Brandon Williams <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 10/10, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
>> 
>> A common pattern to check N attributes for many paths is to
>> 
>>  (1) prepare an array A of N git_attr_check_elem items;
>>  (2) call git_attr() to intern the N attribute names and fill A;
>
> Does the word 'intern' here mean internalize?  It took me a few reads to
> stop picturing college students running around an office :)

The verb comes from Lisp world where you "intern" a string to make a
symbol.