From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aaron Gray" Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ? Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:58:13 +0100 Message-ID: <001001c6a06d$6e7b94b0$0200a8c0@AMD2500> References: <013001c69f04$ae4e2400$0200a8c0@amd2500> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 05 20:59:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyCaS-0000TL-1g for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:59:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964982AbWGES65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:58:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964985AbWGES65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:58:57 -0400 Received: from lon1-mail-2.visp.demon.net ([193.195.70.5]:60204 "EHLO lon1-mail-2.visp.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964982AbWGES64 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:58:56 -0400 Received: from AMD2500 (mwgray.force9.co.uk [212.159.110.144]) by lon1-mail-2.visp.demon.net (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id EEF44940 (AUTH angray); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 19:58:49 +0100 (BST) To: "Linus Torvalds" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Anyway good going, I am glad Linux has an open source VCS again now. I do not know how BitKeeper are going to fell knowing they have been replaced by a Git :) I am toying with using a VCS for a set of related projects, either CVS because its well known, SubVersion for ease of use, or Git as it is new. Lots to descide upon, any pointers would be appreciated. All the best to the Git team. Regards, Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linus Torvalds" To: "Aaron Gray" Cc: "Git Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:28 AM Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ? > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Aaron Gray wrote: >> >> Why the name I could not find any answer in the documentation ? > > It's really quite random. It needs to be a two- or three-letter thing just > because I end up typing a lot. > > My favourite explanation is "I name all my projects after myself: first > 'Linux', now 'git'". > > Which only makes sense if you know british slang. > > The runner up was "Because 'twerp' was too hard to type". > > But really, there's not a lot of real thinking behind it. The made-up > acronym was "global information tracker", but that's a pretty bad excuse > too. > > It just happened. Don't ask me why. All the explanations are really made > up after the fact. > > Linus