From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Consensus on "Git" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:37:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFADA4F.5060403@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <87y6mdyuoo.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Johannes Schindelin , David Symonds , git , Junio C Hamano To: Teemu Likonen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 11 16:38:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8FGn-0003pP-Pf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:38:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753266AbZKKPhz convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752536AbZKKPhy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:54 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:44485 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768AbZKKPhy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:54 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D1FB440A; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:59 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=ltC7pYQsaEAlsL9YnDv9ejC5qSY=; b=TRV9CtNlnd91rBetISHu6AuAPj0napM031mCJaGL0j1utp+mS66mHgT8Ayj3bdW4MUhsTMh25nu3yfCqOoNzzDkx0aXAFR0RkdJEGwbjP1a8c5MEixCPff0ELRLW+o6ES5fF1/YBPfttS//yUTF+j+hOABai54b9o/OSwIp1jco= X-Sasl-enc: LhbRRNGDVwcuWqfs+h8pzzvMy0EGDB0rUR8ql1JGpcHE 1257953879 Received: from localhost.localdomain (heawood.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C8F5217B2; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:58 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091111 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <87y6mdyuoo.fsf@iki.fi> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 11.11.2009 15:58: > On 2009-11-11 10:33 (+0100), Johannes Schindelin wrote: >=20 >> Yes, in Open Source, we are used to crude, geeky humor, some of us >> even accept blunt mails, but we are embedded in a world that is call= ed >> "reality". >> >> In my experience, in this world it is much easier to tell people tha= t >> your program is called "Git" ("could have been John, either") and be >> done with the questions. >=20 > Yes, that=E2=80=99s how the language works. And why Dick Cheney was allowed to keep his name ;) > Proper nouns are capitalized, so in > plain text the name of this program should always be written =E2=80=9C= Git=E2=80=9D. Only > in command examples it is =E2=80=9Cgit=E2=80=9D. >=20 > Sometimes people mix proper nouns and logos/brands. Proper nouns are > under the rules of the language. For example, I can=E2=80=99t go tell= ing people > that my name must be written =E2=80=9CteEMu=E2=80=9D because I don=E2= =80=99t own Finnish. Given that reasoning, we should really use "Git" whenever the program o= r project name is meant. Is that something we can reach concensus on? > In logos the brands=E2=80=99 owner can try to be funny and cool and d= ifferent > and write anything they want (like =E2=80=9Cg=C9=A8T=E2=80=9D or =E2=80= =9CG=C4=ABT=E2=80=9D). Nice! Michael