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Pretty sure a joke just flew over my head. woosh Anyone care to explain?
by sahillavingia 16y ago
Pretty sure a joke just flew over my head. woosh
Anyone care to explain?
- div 16y agoIt's a reference to this saying: http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-rush/ http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
- cypherpunks01 16y agoI'd also consider it an homage to git's highly useful pickaxe functionality, which lets you easily find commits that added or removed a given string, for example: git log -Sgithub shows you revisions where "github" was added or removed from the repository. Turns out that "git pickaxe" is also an alias for "git blame".