From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ? Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <013001c69f04$ae4e2400$0200a8c0@amd2500> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 04 05:28:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fxbae-0005vu-KV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:28:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbWGDD2g (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:28:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750897AbWGDD2g (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:28:36 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63374 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbWGDD2f (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:28:35 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k643SPnW013808 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:28:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k643SHDA014669; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:28:21 -0700 To: Aaron Gray In-Reply-To: <013001c69f04$ae4e2400$0200a8c0@amd2500> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.81__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.135 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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