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Where does the name "Git" come from?

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yaythomas

The history of git is fascinating - basically Linus Torvalds got annoyed with existing source control for Linux, and conceptualized/wrote git pretty quickly. He's joked that it's because he's a "git" himself: git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitF...

This is one of the 1st mentions where he hints about what's to come:
lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel...

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Jing Xue

Me annoyed: write some script that maybe works around it.
Linus annoyed: write a better tool from ground up, effectively deprecating the tool that annoyed me.

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Lol. Awesome