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markus_zhang 5 hours ago

For anyone curious as me:

git means You two.

stoneman24 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how it evolved into the modern British slang of “git”. To quote Wikipedia [0]

“modern British English slang, a git (/ɡɪt/) is a term of insult used to describe someone—usually a man—who is considered stupid, incompetent, annoying, unpleasant, or silly.“.

And “ Git is a popular open-source software for version control created by Linus Torvalds. Torvalds jokingly named it "git" after the slang term, later defining it as "the stupid content tracker".”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)

Octoth0rpe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Torvalds jokingly named it "git" after the slang term, later defining it as "the stupid content tracker".”

I think the better Torvalds quote was when he said "I name all my projects after myself"

talideon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There appears to be nothing linking Old English "git" with Modern English "git". Also, OEng "git" would've been pronounced more like "yit".

vintermann 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Listen baby, they're playing uncer song..."

"Git should get a room!"

rbonvall 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course. It's distributed.