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1. Mads Kjeldgaard (madskjeldgaard@sonomu.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Apr-2022 11:23:38 UTC Mads Kjeldgaard

   • Luka /sonomu.club/

   @luka I think it's git as in 'idiot'. Try running man git and see what the subtitle of the page is haha

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   • Alice and the moon 🌛 (loveisanalogue@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 04-Apr-2022 11:26:47 UTC Alice and the moon 🌛

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     • Luka /sonomu.club/

     @luka @madskjeldgaard In UK English, "git" (hard G) is a pejorative term to describe someone. At the time Linus Torvalds said "I name all my projects after myself".

     So other than the fact "git" was a pronounceable three letter word that wasn't in use by other Unix commands, we can only guess this was a bit of self-deprecation from Linus.

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   • Luka /sonomu.club/ (luka@sonomu.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Apr-2022 11:26:48 UTC Luka /sonomu.club/

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     @madskjeldgaard oh really wow didn't know. why

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 12:36:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Luka /sonomu.club/
     • raboof
     @raboof At the core it is true. The data model is the same as the one Linus cooked up over the weekend 17 years ago and it is brilliant in its simplicity, especially how it doesn't model anything about diffs, deltas, branches or merges. That's all abstraction built on top of what is truly a stupid content tracker.
     
     It's just the user interface layer that organically grew up around it that is a usability disaster.
     
     @luka @madskjeldgaard
   • Luka /sonomu.club/ (luka@sonomu.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 12:36:14 UTC Luka /sonomu.club/

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     @madskjeldgaard yes I've seen that, tried after your toot, but I don't get it. why authors deem it stupid?

   • raboof@merveilles.town's status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 12:36:14 UTC raboof

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     • Luka /sonomu.club/

     @luka @madskjeldgaard I don't know either, but I suspect at the start of the project the author still hoped 'this time we will keep it simple' (the 'good' kind of 'stupid', as in KISS ;) )

   • Mads Kjeldgaard (madskjeldgaard@sonomu.club)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 12:36:15 UTC Mads Kjeldgaard

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     • Luka /sonomu.club/

     @luka I'm only guessing about the idiot part, but if you open man git it says "git - the stupid
     content tracker" as the title, so I'd say it's a qualified guess 😂