On: Nimrod is being renamed to Nim

[stronglikedan]

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.

[Rayearth → stronglikedan]

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.

[orionblastar → stronglikedan]

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.

[JadeNB → orionblastar]

> 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

[codereflection → orionblastar]

That makes sense. However if you look at Linus' description of git, a "stupid content tracker", then the British English derogatory term makes sense.

[codereflection → stronglikedan]

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".

[dllthomas → stronglikedan]

"wasn't popular (if even existent) in American English until it's use as the name of a DVCS."

... and the quoting of Monty Python