Subject: Re: [OT] git logo or mascot (was: Re: wit 0.0.3 - a web interface for git available)

From: "Timothy R. Chavez" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:19:30 +0000

On Friday 22 April 2005 21:22, you wrote:
> Am Freitag, 22. April 2005 23:09 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 00:33 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Very nice, this looks great.  And hey, we have a git logo now :)
> > >
> > > BTW is this logo already officially blessed ?
> >
> > "blessed" how?
>
> Well if it should be official for git, Linus has to "bless" it imho.
>
> > Have an alternative one?
>
> Well, yes. I would like something, which has something to do with the
> original linux mascot.
>
> Like a fish (though that is already used by some other projects) - penguins
> like fish! (Tux too? Or more Linus' fingers ;)? )

I think the logo should be a tortoise.  Why?  Because it's somewhat ironic.  
One of Linus' complaints about SCMs in-general and one of his praises of 
BitKeeper was performance/speed.  The tortoise is typified as being a slow 
and cumbersome animal.  Also, the hare, the tortoise' competition, is 
typified as being quick and possessing fecundity (things that you'd want to 
identify with "git"... and the job of any decent C programmer is to obfuscate 
meaning when possible J/K).  

Oh, and there's a picture of a tortoise named "git.gif"... 

http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/juniorglory/images/git.gif

Perhaps not.  Hah

-tim

>
> Or perhaps even a wife for Tux, which helps him organizing and managing?
>
> ... Tux & Git having nice holidays on an island? ...
>
> Hm, but what is cogito then ...
>
> cu
>
> Fabian
>
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