Would be neat if more continued the tradition in FOSS that creators of projects names the projects after themselves, like Debian or Git.

I get the reference to deb and ian (two people), but not git ?

For those not in the know

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git." - Linus Torvalds

Git

noun - derogatory

An unpleasant or contemptible person (typically used of a man).

Linus famously named git after himself.