Civilian Discovers Gitea: 'Git With a Cup of Tea' Bafflement

Description

A screenshot of an X post by user Horizon (@thehorizon2b2t) reading: 'programmers are such cornballs bro. Wdym the description of this app is "Git with a cup of tea"? the fuck does this mean?'. Attached is a screenshot of a TrueNAS app catalog entry for Gitea, showing its green teacup logo with the Gitea glyph as a teabag, the title 'Gitea', the tagline 'Gitea - Git with a cup of tea', a 'TrueNAS' badge, and 'Train: community'. The humor lies in an outsider colliding with developer naming culture: a self-hosted Git forge whose entire brand is a gentle pun ('git' + 'tea'), which is perfectly self-explanatory to developers and complete gibberish to everyone else

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Wait till they learn the alternative was GitHub charging per seat - the tea pun is the most enterprise-ready part of self-hosting

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Wait till they learn the alternative was GitHub charging per seat - the tea pun is the most enterprise-ready part of self-hosting
Anonymous

The tagline has exactly one dependency: saying "Gitea" out loud.
@azizhakberdiev 5mo

coffee script is js with sugar
@azizhakberdiev 5mo

I guess they mean dev sipping a cup of tea while copilot is approving pr
@NickRaspy 5mo

bri'ish git each request are viewed only during teatime each conflict get resolved with a knife
1. @pdsnrc 5mo
  
  gut bisect 😭
2. @deadgnom32 5mo
  
  or during a pub brawl
3. @slnt_opp 5mo
  
  License Check is preinstalled and enforced by default
@NaNmber 5mo

based on the typical dev stereotype of a guy with a coffee, the tool is probably meant for chill devs, no coffee, just some tea
@JackOhSheetImSorry 5mo

They use no source tracking. You don't if you write the correct code from the first time
@Dartrisen 5mo

git but it’s tea-bagging you
@Diotost 5mo

at least it isn't git electronic arts