[rusk]

Hence the name I guess ... yeah it's ugly and annoying but you're stuck with it because it's great. Kind of like Linus himself I guess ... I wonder if that's the joke.

[masklinn]

> you're stuck with it because it's great.

We're stuck with it because of network effects. Git is absolutely not great.

[JohnFen]

I think git is great. But that might only be because all the other version control systems I've used are worse...

[gjm11]

> I wonder if that's the joke.

Yup. According to Wikipedia, Linus said: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'."