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Git (albeit not a language) has a similar meaning in the UK.
by kachnuv_ocasek 12y ago
Git (albeit not a language) has a similar meaning in the UK.
- k__ 12y agoWhich makes Github the Moron Central. ;)
- Amezarak 12y agoEven in the US, "git" means "idiot." It was my understanding Linus called Git for the same reason Mercurial is called Mercurial: as an unflattering reference to Larry McVoy, who was involved in the Linux/Bitkeeper mess. While typing this though, I discovered that Linux apparently denies this and says it's self-reference. ("I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'".) Nimrod is actually a little interesting. Until the 1980s, Nimrod was just a Biblical figure, a powerful king/great hunter figure. Possibly because it was used in an ironic sense for bad hunters (perhaps beginning with Elmer Fudd), it came to mean the opposite of its original sense and generalized to "idiot." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Nimrod http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Nimrod EDIT: Sorry about that...I accidentally said Perforce instead of BitKeeper. Perforce on the brain. :) Thanks nocman.
- nocman 12y agoI'm assuming you meant to say the "Linux/BitKeeper" mess. McVoy is the BitKeeper guy.