Re: Consensus on "Git"

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>]

2009/11/11 David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> Is there consensus on "Git" being the standard capitalisation, versus
> "GIT"? I only really see "git" and "Git" on the mailing list and in
> most external documentation and websites (e.g. git-scm.com and
> github.com), but git's source tells a different picture:
>
> $ cat *.[ch] | egrep -o '\bG[Ii][Tt]\b' | sort | uniq -c
>  36 GIT
>   7 Git
> $ cat Documentation/* 2> /dev/null | egrep -o '\bG[Ii][Tt]\b' | sort | uniq -c
>  284 GIT
>  155 Git

All upper case in the sources and documentation will mean that it is
either an environment variable (e.g. GIT_INSTALL_DIR as Sverre has
noted), and for preprocessor constants/definitions.

However, those are not what you are searching for. I.e.

$ grep -P '\bGIT\b' *.[ch]
builtin-apply.c:	 * We have read "GIT binary patch\n"; what follows is a line
builtin-apply.c:		static const char git_binary[] = "GIT binary patch\n";
builtin-cat-file.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-check-ref-format.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-commit-tree.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-diff-files.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-init-db.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-ls-tree.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-mktree.c: * GIT - the stupid content tracker
builtin-read-tree.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-update-index.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
builtin-write-tree.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
config.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
date.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
diff.c:	fprintf(file, "GIT binary patch\n");
diff-delta.c: * Rewritten for GIT by Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
(C) 2005-2007
fast-import.c:     # GIT does not permit ':' in ref or tag strings.
fast-import.c:  path    ::= # GIT style file path, e.g. "a/b/c";
fast-import.c:  ref     ::= # GIT ref name, e.g.
"refs/heads/MOZ_GECKO_EXPERIMENT";
fast-import.c:  tag     ::= # GIT tag name, e.g. "FIREFOX_1_5";
fast-import.c:  sha1exp ::= # Any valid GIT SHA1 expression;
fast-import.c:  name  ::= # valid GIT author/committer name;
fast-import.c:  email ::= # valid GIT author/committer email;
fast-import.c:  tz    ::= # GIT style timezone;
fast-import.c:		die("Branch name doesn't conform to GIT standards: %s", name);
hash-object.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
progress.c: * Simple text-based progress display module for GIT
read-cache.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
read-cache.c: * cache, ie the parts that aren't tracked by GIT, and only used
sha1_file.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
sha1_file.c:				     " (try upgrading GIT to a newer version)",
sha1_file.c:		return error("file %s is not a GIT packfile", p->pack_name);
sha1_file.c:			" supported (try upgrading GIT to a newer version)",
trace.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
usage.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell
var.c: * GIT - The information manager from hell

And selected extracts from:

$ grep -P '\bGIT\b' Documentation/*
Documentation/asciidoc.conf:# Show GIT link as: <command>(<section>);
if section is defined, else just show
Documentation/everyday.txt:Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So
Documentation/everyday.txt:My typical GIT day.::
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   providing generally smoother user
experience than the "raw" Core GIT
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   is now in core GIT.
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   pg is a shell script wrapper around GIT
to help the user manage a set of
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   Stacked GIT provides a quilt-like patch
management functionality in the
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   GIT environment. You can easily manage
your patches in the scope of GIT
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing
history of GIT repositories easily.
Documentation/git-tools.txt:   GITweb provides full-fledged web
interface for GIT repositories.
Documentation/git-tag.txt:GIT
Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt:GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes

- Reece