The original "3 bits" explanation is "blood_types.txt", Ben Collins-Sussman's classic translation-into-geek of how human blood types work. That explanation turns out to involve 3 bits (in the binary numbering sense, not the monetary sense), and it gave rise to the expression "Give me 3 bits on Foo", meaning "Give me a super-dense summary of Foo, taking as much advantage as possible of the huge amount of domain-specific knowledge you already know we share." Now you have 3 bits on 3 bits. When creating a new one, please * Use underscores, not hyphens, in the file name. * Make sure it ends with ".txt". * Do "svn propset svn:mime-type 'text/plain' NEWFILE.txt".