Git (software) - Name

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Linus Torvalds has quipped about the name "git", which is English slang for a stupid or unpleasant person. Torvalds said: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'." The man page describes git as "the stupid content tracker".

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