From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] GIT, Git, git
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:31:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130119223105.GG4009@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <732444561.1327663.1358589465467.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net>
Hi Thomas,
Thomas Ackermann wrote:
> Git changed its 'official' system name from 'GIT' to 'Git' in v1.6.5.3
> (as can be seen in the corresponding release note where 'GIT' was
> changed to 'Git' in the header line).
>
> Alas the documention uses 'GIT', 'Git' or even 'git' to refer to the
> Git system. So change every occurrence of 'GIT" and 'git' to 'Git'
> whenever Git as a system is referred to (but don't do this change
> in the release notes because they constitute a history orthogonal
> to the history versioned by Git).
I don't have any opinion about the subject at hand, except that making
a consistent convention and documenting it somewhere to avoid future
churn sounds like a fine idea.
Instead, I'm writing for a procedural nitpick ;-): please move the
above rationale to one of the commit messages, so it gets recorded
somewhere that future readers can easily find it.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-19 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-19 9:57 [PATCH 0/2] GIT, Git, git Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-19 9:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-19 10:39 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-20 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-20 18:53 ` Joachim Schmitz
2013-01-20 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-19 15:01 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-20 0:47 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-20 11:24 ` Aw: " Matthieu Moy
2013-01-19 22:31 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
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