[mothsonasloth]

I think Github have already won the cultural dev war. I hear many a developer saying Github instead of "Git".

A recent example from a mid level dev:

"I'm gonna branch from the github repository" - when the repository is self hosted

[OJFord]

I've never heard/seen it that way around before, but calling GitHub (or similar) features/sites 'git' all the time...

Docker too. ('a docker')

[lesuorac]

I'm surprised GitHub isn't trying to avoid their trademarked becoming generic [1].

If that keeps up you can just call your alternative repo storage system GitHub 2.0 or GitHub Enterprise or something.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

[Zealotux]

My current company uses GitLab; anyone mistakenly referring to it as "Github" would get swiftly corrected, even as a simple proxy word for "Git".

[tester756]

I do that just to mess with people

[rootusrootus]

How does it mess with people? Perhaps they just quietly assume you're not too bright?

[FearlessNebula]

Was it a self hosted github instance?

[mothsonasloth]

No, https://git-scm.com/downloads

Github != Git

[lionkor]

You cant self host github.

[lionkor]

Im pretty sure thats a junior dev thing, no?

[jiveturkey]

Indeed. Not different than many folks saying "internet" instead of "www".

[throwghaway]

That developer is mid level in title, but not in skill.