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For any other confused Americans:

Git is a term of insult with origins in 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)




One of the best pranks I've seen is people getting endorsed for git on LinkedIn, from coworkers who don't think quite so high of them as pretended during office hours.


> coworkers who don't think quite so high of them as pretended during office hours

Sounds malicious.




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