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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by orionblastar on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:59PM (#8352610)
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.

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by JadeNB on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:13PM (#8352684)
> Git is almost like a slang word that means get or got.

Perhaps more dialect than slang?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies

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Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim by codereflection on Monday September 22, 2014 @05:08PM (#8352656)
That makes sense. However if you look at Linus' description of git, a "stupid content tracker", then the British English derogatory term makes sense.
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