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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by zachmu on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:06PM (#22378079)
It's paying homage to how git was named:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming

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Re:A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘Gi... by dflock on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:23PM (#22379914)
True, but the name `git` came from the open source SCM tool, written by Linus for the Linux source code - and now everyone is sort of stuck with that name. This is a commercial product, deciding on a name for themselves.
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