My collegue asked today, what does GIT stand for. I tried searching and found out that GIT "means" idiot, an unpleasant person, etc... but could not find out what the acronym of our versioning tool stands for. Anyone know?
I have never seen "Git" written in all-caps, and I've seen no real indication that it's an acronym.<p>It looks like you may have stumbled upon this already, but according to Wikipedia, Linus said the following about Git's name:<p>> 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".<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)</a>
How about an answer from the official Git wiki?<p><a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Why_the_.27Git.27_name.3F" rel="nofollow">https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Why_the_.27Git...</a>
It doesn't stand for something. Git provides you a derogatory word in the event it doesn't do what you want, it's a feature because you don't have to hunt for a word when you are stressed out about your code. "Stupid git" is my favorite.<p>If your colleague really wants it to stand for something you better think of something.
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