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Comment by vezzy-fnord | Hacker News Reader

I suppose this is useful for people into such tabloid-style things, but the name bothers me. We seem to be heading on to a path where "Git" becomes synonymous with "GitHub". This is worrying because, among other reasons, it sort of subverts the "D" part of DVCS.

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At first I thought this was to track development of git itself. Something I would be interested in, not that there aren't avenues to do so.

Related anecdote: about 3 years ago, I was interviewing a student for an internship. In passing he mentioned he had used different VCSs for different projects. I asked what the major differences were between the VCSs.

His answer: "Git is public, so you can only use it with open-source code, whereas you can use Subversion with any code."

I understand the sentiment completely, I was going to throw Github in the name but then thought I might get a barrage of takedown notices. The domain squatters left me in a tight spot when brain storming and then I found Git Gossip and couldn't refuse the alliteration.

We seem to be heading on to a path where "Git" becomes synonymous with "GitHub".

Sorry if this is kinda gauche, but I think that ship has already sailed for the majority.

I'd love to have other feedback about that, I really don't feel it's true, at least in my working environment.

Does anybody else saw Git replacing GitHub in day to day conversation ?

No, but I regularly see GitHub replacing Git in "technical" forums.

I'm not too worried about this. People who actually use git on a day-to-day basis shouldn't have any such misunderstanding. They may not even use GitHub for such work (I know I don't).

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