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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by dingaling on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:00PM (#25140019)
> Git was made by a man from Finland

... and deliberately named it using a word that's offensive in British English.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Git

If you said 'git' to someone in an English pub you'd be looking for a punch.

For USians it's roughly comparable to 'asshole' on the spectrum of offensiveness.

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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by tarboreus on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:05PM (#25140931)
Git is a couple of pegs down from asshole. Better analogy in American English would be "jerk," without, perhaps, the implied sexual connotation.
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Re:Update to Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch t... by giancarlostoro on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:17PM (#25145085)
The fourth definition does not sound so bad ;) I mean, yeah he did that as a punch to himself because he felt naming another project after himself would be bad. Heck some would argue the UX of git command line makes the name fitting.
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