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Comment by WalterBright

> Originally, if you typed an unknown command, it would just say "this is not a git command".

Back in the 70s, Hal Finney was writing a BASIC interpreter to fit in 2K of ROM on the Mattel Intellivision system. This meant every byte was precious. To report a syntax error, he shortened the message for all errors to:

    EH?
I still laugh about that. He was quite proud of it.

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