Re: [PATCH] Authentication support for pserver

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

avar@cpan.org (Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason) writes:

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+
+    # 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.