With regards to the version control system, is it pronounced like 'give' or 'jit'?
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I have always heard it pronounced like "get", but with an "i" sound.
Justin Ethier
2010-05-20 20:58:00
Like this. As I understand the reason is Linus names projects after himself and he considers himself a git sometimes. That is what I heard anyway so don't quote me on that.
percent20
2010-05-20 21:01:17
Your comment confused me until I found this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git - now it all makes sense :)
Justin Ethier
2010-05-20 21:02:47
I didn't think about people not knowing what git meant. I guess I have watched to many british tv shows.
percent20
2010-05-20 21:05:42
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With a hard G, like get, and rhymes with hit.
This topic was just brought up at an Agile user conference by some esteemed individuals. They all agreed on the above pronunciation.
Marcus Adams
2010-05-20 20:58:32
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It's pronounced like the word that it is: git. Hard g, short i.
Daniel DiPaolo
2010-05-20 20:58:37
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Oh please, be sure that it's pronounced
Gee-HAAAA-ga-BLOOOO-mup-mup-mup-PAH-TANG-pickle.
Ed Guiness
2010-05-20 21:00:48
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I tried. There was no help for that. Nothing turned up in (my) my eskew el database for it either.
Hint. Say jit, then s/j/g/ :)
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Tim Post
2010-05-20 21:01:20
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From Wikipedia:
Linus Torvalds has quipped about the name "git", which is British English slang for a stupid or unpleasant person: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."
A the slang "git" is pronounced: [gɪt] (hard g, short i)
... which is exactly how the software should be pronounced.
John Rasch
2010-05-20 21:02:12
IPA! You cannot fail! Elsewise you end up saying "the i in pin" which, in South Africa, is a schwa [ə], but is [ɪ] in the Queen's English.
Frank Shearar
2010-08-03 19:06:25
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Hard g, short i. (Some) words that rhyme with git:
bit, brit, chit, fit, grit, hit, it, kit, knit, lit, mitt, nit, pit, quit, ritt, schlitt, Schmidt, sit, skit, slit, spit, split, tit, whit, wit, writ, zit
John Feminella
2010-05-20 21:02:26
Out of curiosity, did you generate this automatically anywhere?
Bruno Rothgiesser
2010-05-20 21:09:43
@tvanfosson: made me think for a bit, and gave me a welcome laugh in the end...
Chris Dodd
2010-05-20 21:59:42
@tvanfosson: I missed two, but I don't think either of them are printable on StackOverflow. ;)
John Feminella
2010-05-21 13:26:26
@tva That reminds me of the four letter word ending in "unt" commonly used to describe women.
Roger Pate
2010-06-10 21:26:15
It depends on your accent. Most of those don't rhyme with git in the above (to my South African ear), instead using the "schwa" sound. Rhyming words in the list: hit, kit, Schmidt, skit.
Frank Shearar
2010-08-03 19:00:53
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The name "Git" comes from a pejorative British slang word. See the Wiktionary entry, which gives a pronunciation with a hard G.
When Linus Torvalds was asked why he named it "git", he quipped:
I'm an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
Joey Adams
2010-05-20 21:03:05
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Listen to the song "I'm So Tired" by the Beatles, which has the approximate lyrics:
I'll have another cigarette/And curse Sir Walter Raleigh/He was such a stupid git
There is also:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?git00001=git
David M
2010-05-20 21:05:13
or here, in "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on Git": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Jakub Narębski
2010-05-20 22:18:39