# Re: Ort-merge: What does "ort" mean?

- From: Eric Sunshine \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-24 23:24:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7877636
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7877542/t.md

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:23 PM Elijah Newren [ref] wrote:
> It actually has meaning beyond being a joke, though:
>
>  * Note: git's parser allows the space between '-s' and its argument to be
>  * missing.  (Should I have backronymed "ham", "alsa", "kip", "nap, "alvo",
>  * "cale", "peedy", or "ins" instead of "ort"?)
>  */
>
> However, I learned my lesson -- Eric is way better at coming up with
> names than me[1] so if I need more names in the future, I'll ping him.
> :-)

"Extended LInear Jump AHead" is still my favorite because it sounds
cool. However, I wouldn't sneeze at "UNiversally Systematic Heuristic
Iterative Newtonian Elliptic", which is probably a more apt
description of what you implemented, but I digress.
```