Re: Why's Git called Git ?

Anyway good going, I am glad Linux has an open source VCS again now.

I do not know how BitKeeper are going to fell knowing they have been 
replaced by a Git :)

I am toying with using a VCS for a set of related projects, either CVS 
because its well known, SubVersion for ease of use, or Git as it is new. 
Lots to descide upon, any pointers would be appreciated.

All the best to the Git team.

Regards,

Aaron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: "Aaron Gray" <redacted>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ?

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Aaron Gray wrote:

quoted

Why the name I could not find any answer in the documentation ?

It's really quite random. It needs to be a two- or three-letter thing just
because I end up typing a lot.

My favourite explanation is "I name all my projects after myself: first
'Linux', now 'git'".

Which only makes sense if you know british slang.

The runner up was "Because 'twerp' was too hard to type".

But really, there's not a lot of real thinking behind it. The made-up
acronym was "global information tracker", but that's a pretty bad excuse
too.

It just happened. Don't ask me why. All the explanations are really made
up after the fact.

Linus