Torvalds Unveils New Linux Control System

BlakeCaldwell writes "CNet reports: 'Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has launched a new tool, called Git, to manage his software project, after a dispute led him to drop the previous system.' He will start using Git instead of BitKeeper to control the flow of updates and track changes in the kernel." We've covered this previously. Relatedly, ChocLinux writes "Jeremy Allison, who wrote Samba with Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell, is sticking up for his friend in the row over BitKeeper. "

Git?

[Phidoux]

I thought that's what Southerners say to their dawgs?

git 'er done!

[qwertphobia]

git 'er done!

Re:Nice Timing!

[PhuckFonix]

This is a total shock for me. I thought for sure he was going back to pen and paper.

Re:Git?

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

Linus got the name from Tridge's response to McVoy.

Re:how come

[dragon_imp]

And the poll's still up! I am psychic -- I voted for homegrown. You can, too.

unfortunate choice of name...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/git [freesearch.co.uk]

Re:Nice Timing!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Mind Melding is closed source.

git,

[jago25_98]

Linguistic genius!

Torvalds was then quoted as saying

[dfn5]

"Hey BitKeeper, you Git"

Re:Git?

[ch-chuck]

that's what we appalachains holler at city slickers that'ar trespassing, usually spoken while holding a shotgun.

So now all kernel developers can say

[Anonymous Coward]

"Stupid Git!"

Re:Git?

[Striikerr]

And if you're too lazy to RTF, here's the quote from the very end of the article.. "When asked why he called the new software, "git," British slang meaning "a rotten person," he said. "I'm an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.""

Maybe Linus is tired of the FOSS God mantle

[SQUAG]

And this is his way of saying fork you.

Re:Git?

[krewemaynard]

i believe the phrase is "GIT R DONE!", and has nothing to do with dogs (unless heavy drinking is involved).

you'd do well to learn some redneck, then try again later.

AT&T Press Release

[mrwiggly]

"Torvalds could have done something constructive: he could have written the best damn OS [Operating System] on the planet, and believed that open source generates better things, and competed against AT&T that way," says a Bell Labs Spokespers in the posting.

Re:The ZDNet article gets it wrong

[dheltzel]

but . . ., but . . .

Larry said very clearly that his company is the most open source friendly company in existance. Surely he wouldn't lie about that would he?

Seriously, I'd have modded you up, but you were already at the max.

Blue Collar Linux Development

[dubious9]

I can see it now...

"There's damn bug som'er in mem.c, can you see if you squish that son'va'bitch?"

"Public? I made it a private construct. Torvalds threw it in public."

"If you construct your own low level CMS when the other one runs away,you just might be a redDevneck."

I like your world play!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linguistic genius!

Re:Git?

[hawk]

- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command.

Well, *duh*!

Self respecting unix commands have two letters, noto three, and, furthemore, are not pronounceable.

That mkdir and rmdir use more than two letters is a long-standing bug--longer even than the screwy footnote/gap bug in words (which dates to Mac Word 1.0)

hawk

Re:Erm, name change...

[Anonymous Coward]

I suggest Firebird.

Re:Git?

[ewe2]

It should have been called 'dickhead' then, much more appropriate and has an Australian air to it.

Re:Git?

[mattspammail]

How about "Git Isn't Translatable"?

Re:Git?

[Jose]

What about "Git Isn't a TLA"

Greeeat.

[gmatyola]

Now we'll have other people who make:

GitTorrent

Gimp-Git

Kgit

Gititude

Not a lawyer...

[Anonymous Coward]

But he stayed at a Holiday Inn last night!

Re:Git?

[GoRK]

That mkdir and rmdir use more than two letters is a long-standing bug--longer even than the screwy footnote/gap bug in words (which dates to Mac Word 1.0)

A bug which was fixed by DOS!

Re:Git?

[smittyoneeach]

That explains a lot of things around here...

Verily thinketh the n00b in his heart: things around here are explainable, foreasmuch as to have meaning, even unto the cusp of there being a point thereto.
Then the depression setteth in...

Re:zdnet.co.uk

[jericho4.0]

Idiot. Telneting into a service and typing 'help' is not 'h4x0r1ng', no matter how difficult the telnet manpage looks.