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by dralley 2898 days ago
I feel bad for thinking that it's a terrible name, since it's probably a fine name in some other language, and I don't want to be an entitled American English speaker expecting literally everything software related to be in English.

And yet, it's a great tool that I suspect that it will never get traction for precisely that reason. The abundance of options enables people to be shallow enough that a silly-sounding name knocks it out of consideration.

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> a silly-sounding name knocks it out of consideration.

I wonder why the same didn't happen with git. It's really rather rude in English.

> And yet, it's a great tool that I suspect that it will never get traction for precisely that reason.

Git is like 10x worse and still 'won'.

What's wrong with this name?
As an english speaker, I don’t know how to pronounce it. Git, subversion, sourcesafe, they can all be easily pronounced.