From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Ackermann Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] Add rule for when to use 'git' and when to use 'Git' Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <1147790618.632901.1358796250206.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail20.arcor-online.net> References: <884336319.632675.1358795540870.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail20.arcor-online.net> <1860384981.631689.1358793375131.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail20.arcor-online.net> <7vvcark1f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <775908345.1391972.1358713010522.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail12.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davvid@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com, th.acker@arcor.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 21 20:24:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TxMyv-0007Rr-MD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756048Ab3AUTYM (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:12 -0500 Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]:47106 "EHLO mail-in-09.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755279Ab3AUTYL (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:24:11 -0500 Received: from mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.35]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49515197760; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.53]) by mail-in-18-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4531A3481BE; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail20.arcor-online.net (webmail20.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.201]) by mail-in-13.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FA1212433; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:10 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-13.arcor-online.net 37FA1212433 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=arcor.de; s=mail-in; t=1358796250; bh=PpiwrOv66iGhk3zMzx79KzhWtGI1cxNgXxoYiYJBbwk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Subject: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Qm6Wd4jj9b7in9aVnAdaTLXyn0nlUOJ8i1Tq/pAU4Sx2MiZr5y3dgvrJaRIbIt/XN 1UZDorLhYZLXO76RunfCJcI2+HzztSOs3eb1/rF2ii6lm1K46d3IbohhA2Q2RC0K8A 13t2L28klxBIWk0EVqL5JDWyFsySGz2OTS36cbww= Received: from [188.105.98.86] by webmail20.arcor-online.net (151.189.8.201) with HTTP (Arcor Webmail); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:24:10 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <884336319.632675.1358795540870.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail20.arcor-online.net> X-ngMessageSubType: MessageSubType_MAIL X-WebmailclientIP: 188.105.98.86 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 5e60daf..4f40b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -230,3 +230,9 @@ Writing Documentation: valid usage. "*" has its own pair of brackets, because it can (optionally) be specified only when one or more of the letters is also provided. + + A note on notation: + Use 'git' (all lowercase) when talking about commands i.e. something + the user would type into a shell and use 'Git' (uppercase first letter) + when talking about the version control system and its properties. + -- 1.8.0.msysgit.0 --- Thomas