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The Swedish and git pull, or 'I fingered myself 5 min. ago'
- phantom784 17y agoI run into this problem as an English speaker. My university makes its directory accessible via the finger protocol, so I talk about fingering people all the time. Worst named command ever. Of course, being a college student, I find the whole thing hilarious.
- ams1 17y agoAnother reason you should fetch and merge, not pull!
- jcl 17y agoThe command "git" itself is not exactly international-friendly. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git We must simply assume that Linus was trying to annoy as many people as possible.
- tel 17y agoConsidering Linus speaks Swedish I'd have to agree. To his kind of bilingualism, hearing people 'gitpull' all the time can't help but summon a grin.
- j_baker 17y agoPersonally, I say that it's difficult enough to choose a name that fits just one language. But to make it fit multiple languages? I hypothesize that the difficulty in naming will increase exponentially based on how many languages you're considering.
- berntb 17y agoThen consider the Swedish name "Jerker" (for males, of course). Maybe there is some deep insights here into our Swedish psyche? :-)
- epochwolf 17y agoHardly a new problem. This happens in english all the time. A friend and I were using the word "twat" as a passed tense for tweet until someone pointed out this word already has a meaning. And yes, I was completely unaware of the meaning. You can also discuss processes as parents killing children, reaping dead children, zombied children, etc.