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At first I thought this was named for aho (アホ), Japanese slang for "stupid", then I remembered that Alfred Aho is the 'a' in 'awk'. Or maybe it's both?
by bitwize 3y ago
At first I thought this was named for aho (アホ), Japanese slang for "stupid", then I remembered that Alfred Aho is the 'a' in 'awk'. Or maybe it's both?
- bangonkeyboard 3y agoBoth, I assume. "Git" was already slang for "stupid person," so this is a clever name.
- phkahler 3y agoI always assumed git was a sort of slang for get. So you "git the code" or use git to get code.
- samatman 3y agoThe pun is there for sure, but "git" is British slang for an unpleasant or annoying person. I was introduced to it by The Beatles: "and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git". I believe it was Linus himself who quipped (paraphrasing) that he is so arrogant he named two software projects after himself: Linux, and git.
- CharlesW 3y agoMy most recent experience is hearing it in Reservation Dogs: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aho#Navajo https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aho#Navajo
- ghc 3y agoI bet it's both. Extremely clever wordplay!