Definition of "git" []

• Chiefly New England, Midland U.S., & Southern U.S. Variant of get. (verb)
• Chiefly British Slang Variant of get. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I'm just not convinced at all yet that git has made huge inroads on the usability level as its defenders often claim when discussing git vs. bzr. ls / usr / bin / git-* | wc - l"
• "Fortunately, a short trip to #git revealed the cause of the problem: git compresses objects before sending them to a remote repository; it simply ran out of virtual memory while compressing some of the larger files."
• "Glenn is the personification of the phrase git 'er done."