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[mirror] blog and personal website of Drew DeVault git clone https://hacktivis.me/git/mirror/drewdevault.com.git
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Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date:   Fri,  1 Apr 2022 11:16:58 +0200

credit where due

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diff --git a/content/blog/git-snail-mail.md b/content/blog/git-snail-mail.md @@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ date: 2022-04-01 ![A picture of a patch printed out on paper](https://l.sr.ht/w9hP.jpg) At least, this is what I'd like to say, but I ended up cancelling the project -before it was ready for April Fool's. I did actually write a lot of the code for -this idea! Git is mostly written in Perl, but I could not really rouse the -enthusiasm for implementing this idea in Perl. I did the prototype in -$secretlang instead, and got it mostly working, but decided not to try to do -some sneaky half-private joke release while trying to maintain the secrecy of -the language. +before it was ready for April Fool's. After my friend kline (a staffer at Libera +Chat) came up with this idea, I actually did write a lot of the code! Git is +mostly written in Perl, but I could not really rouse the enthusiasm for +implementing this idea in Perl. I did the prototype in $secretlang instead, and +got it mostly working, but decided not to try to do some sneaky half-private +joke release while trying to maintain the secrecy of the language. Essentially how it works is this: I have a TeX template for patches: