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markus_zhangtoday at 11:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

For anyone curious as me:

git means You two.


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stoneman24today at 11:32 AM

I wonder how it evolved into the modern British slang of “git”. To quote Wikipedia [0]

“modern British English slang, a git (/ɡɪt/) is a term of insult used to describe someone—usually a man—who is considered stupid, incompetent, annoying, unpleasant, or silly.“.

And “ Git is a popular open-source software for version control created by Linus Torvalds. Torvalds jokingly named it "git" after the slang term, later defining it as "the stupid content tracker".”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)

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vintermanntoday at 11:35 AM

"Listen baby, they're playing uncer song..."

"Git should get a room!"

rbonvalltoday at 12:36 PM

Of course. It's distributed.