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From Wikipedia > Torvalds has quipped about the name git, which is British English slang roughly equivalent to "unpleasant person". Torvalds said: "I'm an egot
by RyanZAG 13y ago
From Wikipedia
> Torvalds has quipped about the name git, which is British English slang roughly equivalent to "unpleasant person". Torvalds said: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'." The man page describes git as "the stupid content tracker".
- Myrmornis 13y agoOops ok, sorry Linus! I didn't mean to suggest that you had applied "git" inaccurately to yourself. I guess it's Merriam-Webster that is one source of the incorrect definition. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git
- Myrmornis 13y agoAnd the downvotes are because...the weak attempt at humor I suppose? HN moderators -- a useful feature would be being able to annotate a downvote with a reason, so that commenters can learn where they erred. The Merriam-Webster reference is pertinent in a subthread which is about the meaning of the word "git" (yes, not germane to the article, but to criticize that you would downvote the comment at the root of the subthread.) So all these downvotes for one good-natured sentence?
- bch 13y agoI feel this description is Linus backtracking, where the original target of the "git" label was in fact Andrew Tridgell, who was at the center of the Linux/bitkeeper reverse engineering drama [0]. [0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tridgell/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...