> Nobody identifies as a git or the descendant of gits.
I see you've never been to Finland.[0] (Perhaps Linus comes from a long proud line of gits ;) )
[0] I briefly considered saying Switzerland, after a Stan Freberg skit where he speaks in an outrageous accent and claims to be from Switzerland "that way, nobody gets offended". Crockford's page with various types of JavaScript inheritance (including Swiss inheritance) unfortunately now has a broken link to the Fredberg skit.
Some black people don't care about this kind of thing. Some do.
Git is a generic insult and doesn't have historical baggage. Nobody identifies as a git or the descendant of gits.