Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it In all the furore around the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, no one has asked the obvious question: what should the service be called after its Redmondisation? At Vulture Central, we live in constant fear of mixing up GitLab and GitHub. Two letters are all that stand between an amusingly snarky story and a grovelling …
Q2 2018 "Oh, we're not going to change the name"
Q3 2018 "Our developers have created this amazing new client for git, $128/seat/year!"
Q4 2018 "dammit no one is using MSGit"
Q1 2019 "Github will be using a new *updated* standard for GIT !!!, have to use MSgit since no one else uses this better standard"
Q3 2019 "Wow, traffic on GitHub fell off a cliff ....make it sexy again!"
Q1 2020 "Git For Business is now available, a git repo, compiler engines in the cloud, interface design UI servers in the cloud, and true collaborative coding, we'll search all the gits and find the best code that matches what you're trying to do and pull it into your git!!!!"
I think they should just give up now, rebrand it MScodeGitsnBitsforBusinessFailure
Oh! And happy friday of the weekend Canada Day celebration from the northern leftpondians!
> I know of several people who either can't play or have had to re-purchase Minecraft since MS converted the accounts system.
Our CI system uses MSVC for making publicly downloadable builds. Every few months it stops working, and I login to the system to find out what's wrong. Every single time it's MSVC wanting me to re-authenticate, then refusing to accept my username/password.
To reset my account, they want me to provide my mobile number. Not fucking happening. Ever.
So, instead it gets a newly generated account using random crap email address alias, and that'll have to do until next time. Jeez I hate those wankers (MS if that's not clear).
Per the above, the Visual Git mascot to be Clippy with an RMS haircut and beard (how I wish I were a proper graphics artist! Actually, the more I try to visualise (sic) it, the happier I am that I cannot)
For the puzzled millennials among you, here is a BASIC clue for you.
Icon for irony (actually, not a bad fallback mascot... Clippy aged 65?)
Looking forward to a new UI where we can only see 8 lines of code at a time, each in a separate speech bubble, with the top 25% of the window dedicated to showing us our own username, and the left 25% of the window dedicated to showing us icons for 3 features, in a font and color scheme you can't customize, a minimum window size that's too big, a maximum window size that just expands the whitespace, and a search control that takes 95% of the window title bar so you can't move the window without pinpoint precision.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/17408641-please-create-a-professional-compact-chat-layout
Git your hands off of my data, mother Klucker.
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I believed in a thing called Git.
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Git on the rocks
Git on the rocks with no ice
So many issues we should address
'Cos our code just don't correlate
All the emotions that we suppress
Bite our tongues until it's too late
BTW, Look up git in Wiktionary, the free dictionary:
"Git is a term of insult with origins in British English denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. As a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less pejorative than berk. Typically a good-natured admonition with a strong implication of familiarity, git is more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat when offence is intended.
Linus Torvalds actually named the VCS system "Git". Maybe it was what he thought of most of the contributors sending him bug riddled Linux code (the first use of Git).
The name still seems just as appropriate for Microsoft and it's programming users.
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