On: Git-scm.com status report

[bshimmin]

It's like "hash" and "hashtag" all over again. sobs

[gumby → bshimmin]

Fight back: call them "Sharp designators" (or if you're a splittist, "pound marker"

[crottypeter → gumby]

No, please.

the pound is £

# this really is hash ;)

[gumby → crottypeter]

Splittist! The People's Liberation Front of Lingustics fundamentally condemns you members of the Linguistic People's Liberation Front!

[philtar → crottypeter]

That's pound sterling. The other is pound marker. Why should pound sterling be the 'pound'?

Maybe pound is lb

[dragonwriter → gumby]

"Octothorpe" is the One True label.