The Swedish and git pull, or 'I fingered myself 5 min. ago'

http://lericson.blogg.se/code/2010/february/this-might-seem-silly-git-pull.html

by adamhowell • 16 years ago

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phantom784• 16 years ago

I run into this problem as an English speaker. My university makes its directory accessible via the finger protocol, so I talk about fingering people all the time. Worst named command ever.

Of course, being a college student, I find the whole thing hilarious.

ams1• 16 years ago

Another reason you should fetch and merge, not pull!

jcl• 16 years ago

The command "git" itself is not exactly international-friendly.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git

We must simply assume that Linus was trying to annoy as many people as possible.

tel• 16 years ago

Considering Linus speaks Swedish I'd have to agree. To his kind of bilingualism, hearing people 'gitpull' all the time can't help but summon a grin.

j_baker• 16 years ago

Personally, I say that it's difficult enough to choose a name that fits just one language. But to make it fit multiple languages? I hypothesize that the difficulty in naming will increase exponentially based on how many languages you're considering.

berntb• 16 years ago

Then consider the Swedish name "Jerker" (for males, of course).

Maybe there is some deep insights here into our Swedish psyche? :-)

epochwolf• 16 years ago

Hardly a new problem. This happens in english all the time.

A friend and I were using the word "twat" as a passed tense for tweet until someone pointed out this word already has a meaning. And yes, I was completely unaware of the meaning.

You can also discuss processes as parents killing children, reaping dead children, zombied children, etc.

The Swedish and git pull, or 'I fingered myself 5 min. ago'

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