And he called it Git. Git is distributed version control.

Go on, git!

You old git!

First 'Linux', now 'git'.

You manky Scots git!

Branches in Git are very lightweight A branch in Git is only a reference to a single commit.

Get on your horse, fellow, and git!

You're quite talkative for an old git.

This is a screenshot from GitHub, the premier Git hosting service, and every time a programmer uses Git to make any important change at all, creating a new file, modifying an existing one, merging two files, Git creates this kind of signature.

Torvalds has quipped about the name git , which is British English slang meaning unpleasant person .

And when people draw diagrams of Git workflow, they use drawings that look like this.

Its code was initially based on Qt Development Frameworks' QtDemoBrowser and is developed on KDE Projects' Git repository.

Once Git allowed for cooperation without coordination, you start to see communities form that are enormously large and complex.

This module is not part of the GNOME Git repository. Please check the module's web page to see where to send translations.

Every Git system generates this number the same way, which means this is a signature tied directly and unforgeably to a particular change.

SHA 1 hashing is also used in distributed revision control systems like Git, Mercurial, and Monotone to identify revisions, and to detect data corruption or tampering.

... I guarantee you, if you put your data in Git, you can trust the fact that five years later, after it was converted from your hard disk to DVD to whatever new technology and you copied it along, five years later you can verify that the data you get back out is the exact same data you put in.