| >+ GIT - the stupid content tracker Hmm… I think Linus thought it was stupid. >+"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood. Or... He was just in the everything-is-stupid mood. >+ - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronounciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. I think everyone just goes with that. :) >+ - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang. Here! He said it again! >+ - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. GitHub surely took it seriously and made it happen. Thank you! >+ - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks Maybe I'll take it. Mainly because I don't want to learn how to think like Linus. >+This is a stupid (but extremely fast) directory content manager. It doesn't do a whole lot, but what it _does_ do is track directory contents efficiently. And here's Linus saying git is stupid, again. I think he really means it. Well, at least that day he did. Anyway, thanks for fossil Dr. Hip! :) edit: formatting. |
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding
That style is just linus' way. It comes across as a lot more aggressive on screen than in person. To get a better sense of him, I'd recommend watching this talk he gave evangelising git at google back in 2007. It's pretty entertaining, and very educational on the issues facing VCS designers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
To a certain extent, if you can knock git together in a couple of weeks you get a free pass to talk however you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone.