As per Wikipedia:
"Git is a mild pejorative with origins in British English for an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. It is usually an insult, more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat.
The word git first appeared in print in 1946, but is undoubtedly older. [citation needed] It is originally an alteration of the word get, dating back to the 14th century.[citation needed] A shortening of beget, get insinuates that the recipient is someone's misbegotten offspring and therefore a bastard. In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland get is still used in preference to git; the get form is used in the Beatles song "I'm So Tired". [citation needed]
The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.
The word was used self-deprecatingly by Linus Torvalds in naming the git source control package."
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)
I also have some (fun) words to say on Git:
The GB smart metering initiative is called Great Britain Companion Specification (GBCS) and there's a well known Portuguese company heavily involved in it (although that is not much publicized). One of the tools was called GFI (Git For Industry) and this is a quote from "Smart Metering for Dummies - CGI" that refers to it, as well as to the unfortunate choice of name.
But if Linus did it, why not other?
Quoting:
"In an attempt to accelerate development of devices in the absence of a DCC environment, the DCC has commissioned Critical Software to modify a tool previously developed to validate GBCS (the unfortunately named GBCS Interface Testing, or GIT for short). The modified tool, GIT for Industry (GFI) will allow device manufacturers to generate ‘gold standard’ GBCS commands on a ZigBee HAN to which they can connect and test their devices. By the time you read this, the first version of this tool should have been released and we should be well into a series of seven GBCS Test Events organised by the DCC for budding device manufacturers to come along and test out their devices against GIT."
Quoting:
"Parse and Correlate Provider: The Parse and Correlate (P&C) Provider is responsible for
developing the software application used by DCC Users to convert GBCS (the protocol used by the DCC to talk to smart devices) into DUIS (the protocol used by DCC Users to talk to the DCC). P&C also checks that the DSP has done its job correctly when translating critical commands (really important ones) into GBCS (the correlate bit of Parse and Correlate).
This will all make much more sense when you’ve read Chapter 4 (trust me). Critical Software was appointed P&C Provider on 29 April 2014 under a three‐year contract with the option of two one‐year extensions."
The PDF can be found here (requires registration): https://www.cgi-group.co.uk/smart-metering-for-dummies
About GBCS: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-metering-implementation-programme-the-process-to-finalise-the-great-britain-companion-specification
(@2016-10: additional text, quote)
