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saryant on July 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for usi...

Github is an American company and the use of the word "git" in American English is not at all common. They may not know.

That said, I find this whole thing to be silly. What can you possibly get out of choosing to be the word police?

slantyyz on July 29, 2015 [–]

>> "git" in American English is not at all common.

It's common, except it's a verb, no? As Larry the Cable Guy would say, "git r done".

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