Dont be so romantic ;) The git Packagepackage in Debian was formerly known as "git-core"git-core. In April 2010 the package was renamed to "git"
See this Post from Julius Plenz forgit. More details:
can be found in http://blog.plenz.com/2011-11/dont-believe-the-hype.htmlthis blog post by Julius Plenz
or simply this commit in debian:
Here's theHere is a graph you requestedthat shows the number installs of both git and git-core over time:)
