Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
by stronglikedan on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:36PM
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Just guessing, but I would say that's because "git" is only derogatory in British English, and wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS.
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I like to think, humorously, that the name of the DVCS came about from the BitKeeper mess that ultimately led to the creation of git:
* Andrew Tridgell is a git for reverse-engineering BitKeeper
* Larry McVoy is a git for throwing a tantrum and withdrawing free BitKeeper
* Linus is a git for blaming Trigdell as the cause of Larry's reaction
Personally I think they're all gits.
Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
by orionblastar on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:59PM
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I always thought that git was a form of got or get.
Get me the source code. I got the source code.
Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.
Yeah in British English it means a stupid person, you useless git! Almost like Nimrod means stupid dimwitted person.
> Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.
Perhaps more dialect than slang?
Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:08PM
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That makes sense. However if you look at Linus' description of git, a "stupid content tracker", then the British English derogatory term makes sense.
Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:07PM
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I agree. While I'm training people on git at work (in Seattle), they often look up the term and point out the definition to me. I then direct them to Linus' intention, for it to be "a stupid content tracker".