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Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds

20 years of git

because even geniuses get annoyed by bad version control

Torvalds sarcastically quipped about the name git (which means “unpleasant person” in British English slang): “I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First ‘Linux‘, now ‘git’.”

The man page describes Git as “the stupid content tracker”

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