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varsketiz
on Jan 3, 2022
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Dura is a background process that watches your Git...
Took me a while to realize this is derived from the word duraBILITY. At first I thought this was a russian word being used...
ljm
on Jan 3, 2022
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I thought it was called дура (stupid) because 'git' is slang for idiot.
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It seems the previous name of the app was "Duralumin" and they just shortened to "Dura".
yosito
on Jan 3, 2022
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The root is Latin, duro, which means hard.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/duro#Latin
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