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Raphael Habereder • Edited

Why do people always post this link to the gnome mailing list?
There are a lot of "maybes" and "possibles" on this thread, and no proof whatsoever. It is all just speculation to produce an uproar.

Might as well rename git, since a git is an "unpleasant or contemptible person". And who wants to work with these?

Seriously, who is actually going "Yes, now I can finally work with git" after this change?

This is opening a massive can of worms, because of a version control system. An engineering tool.
IMHO this change is just producing work on a global scale and will have literally zero impact to the world, except the disruption of people's workflow.

It appears that if we made the obvious one-line change to builtin/init-db.c, we'd have 304 tests that fail, which is about a third of our test suite.
source: Git Mailing List on Kernel.org

Like this.

While the discussion is important to have, the effort should be invested somewhere else maybe.

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Rémy 🤖

I would add that Git is officially a self-reference from Linus Torvalds towards his own personality, and he's fairly offensive.