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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 …

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  1. Paranoid android

    GitSoft

    The obvious one!

  2. mevets

    One name to rule them all....

    That isn’t the microsoft way; the first thing it needs is to divide the exact same thing into multiple tiers at different prices.

    1. Enterprise edition git: eegit

    2. Internet developer git: idgit

    3.Mobile app git: magit

    4. Federated k8s git: fkgit

    And to help guide you to the right git for you: gippy, your git assistant.

    1. onefang
      Pint

      Re: One name to rule them all....

      You should have split those between multiple comments, I would have upvoted each one. Have an upvote, and an inoxicating beverage of your choice ->

  3. Milton

    OldGit

    OldGit—includes a plethora of appropriate mental images for UK readers, including imminent obsolescence, and correctly implies that all sentient users not yet victimised by Microsoft's "ecosystem" will be heading for something younger, better and less likely to become toxic.

    "Ecosystem": Trap floored with poisoned punji sticks—refers to commercial practice of attempting to entrap paying customers via contrived dependence, usually on false and superfluous grounds, thereafter to squeeze their wallets until they die.

  4. JLV

    given a once-popular substitution for the S in MS, some unkind souls - not me, guv - might go for Git$

  5. Lars Johansson

    SourceSafe for Workgroups

    ...for that enterprisey legacy feeling.

  6. Ken Moorhouse Silver badge

    GINT

    aka Modder's Ruin

  7. Steve Channell
    Unhappy

    Source safe extreme

    Surely that's just an alias for one that worked for more than a month without having a corruption or one that was corrupt beyond all recognition and needs to be restored from tape

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Now that MS has a finger in the pie...how about

    GitLost?

  9. John Geek
    Devil

    "MicroGit"

  10. Neon Teepee
    Coat

    For the Aussies

    Universally Grabbing Great Source (UGGS)

    GitBucket or BitGit - For the Atlassian fans

  11. mgoebel

    Microsoft VCShub

    Microsoft IP Theft Hub (Microsoft IPTShub)

    Microsoft Paywall Hub

    Microsoft Shitzilla

    Microsoft VCS365

    Microsoft GotIT365

  12. FidgetStick

    GIT 350'ish

    surely it needs some downtime worked into the name...

  13. MartinBZM
    IT Angle

    how about ...

    SunkHole

    Hmmm ?

    Apparantly IT has nothing to do with Git, anymore.

  14. David 18

    How about...

    /dev/null ?

  15. jimbo60

    GitSmart...

    ...has the appropriate comedic aspect for this entire farce.

  16. Sleekit

    Gitiup

    Because everything Microsoft touches, slows down.

    1. Neon Teepee
      Stop

      Re: Gitiup

      That has Git and ihub - Apple would sue :-)

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    GitHurrb, also has the anagram: BuhGrrit

  18. Aladdin Sane

    After hours

    Git pub? For once let's not hope for a lock in.

  19. quxinot

    Given the reliability of O365 and such

    ... It'll obviously be GitDown!

  20. dajames

    I just hope it's not

    GitStore ...

    ... or Microsoft SourceStore ...

    ... but I'm sure monetization will come into it.

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