From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:28:16 GMT Subject: Re: Why's Git called Git ? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <013001c69f04$ae4e2400$0200a8c0@amd2500> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Aaron Gray wrote: > > 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