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Acronym Expansion Failure

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:26 UTC (Sat) by rknop (guest, #66)
Parent article: Mercurial v0.7 released

What is SCM?

I looked at the front page of the project, and they don't expand the acronym there ether.

Is this something I should just know?

-Rob

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Acronym Expansion Failure

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:37 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link]

Source Code Manager

Acronym Expansion Failure

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:40 UTC (Sat) by rqosa (subscriber, #24136) [Link]

Oops, actually it doesn't stand for that.

scm

Posted Sep 18, 2005 17:48 UTC (Sun) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]

Software Configuration Management

Acronym Expansion Failure

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:37 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

According to acronymfinder.com, it stands for Supply Chain Management, Single Christian Male, Strategic Cruise Missile and my favorite - Sweet Condensed Milk.

Or you can click on the SCM link on the Mercurial website. It says "software configuration management". Sorry, no sweet milk.

Acronym Expansion Failure

Posted Sep 17, 2005 17:38 UTC (Sat) by newren (guest, #5160) [Link]

Google found this link which says what SCM stands for: http://www.answers.com/topic/scm (scroll down to "SCM is an acronym for:" and look at their list of 28 items).