From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.manjaro.org (mail.manjaro.org [116.203.91.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B25D8152E10 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708467439; cv=none; b=mFh8TgpnAPxzBaF2H0MOUnq6wb2ccmv5+Xhnb9ICFIBvS4W9Ic7Vsl19S54mLGJ2qH0PbvhBEcmI5AP+D3FT0l3Sf/Pabmm3Eu1vi+HupXIcqMZs9kQ9KDgl2J6qViwywQAC2l4C0j1BIbNC9WWcFFpbMuIHaBsJenMUh1MSWcs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708467439; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6XYLk0Yo+/QnFZCKmsxnmfzUiSi2DjiqlkcuACal2Zk=; h=MIME-Version:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Message-ID:Content-Type; b=OecOsYqTOTJrvQD0YDZN/taFnHQVOBW4dyZWF+uC83cZW4XPxfckVfg2wGDzIZ8rUYTADDlYIEukbG5Z5R3R0lDd/8tNHf2LHn9qsExJGu5gFgZlexzh9a2W2nezaLAkkRlPsTtoWVZrILS7VYBIHPtMazpgKcWjZJoH1U6NHfQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b=AD1uu/9X; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b="AD1uu/9X" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1708467434; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=7zDN9tOZI0ZFJZt2PO6DePZ8x63teNrDKfz96IbzvPE=; b=AD1uu/9XmviWP2v7iq6OLFwLPd/8+Kubp/1EbfT32y4HpYPzOokvN4nvwPvouliJf2A8j/ HcoqpG+fYnYkes011v6DsvS5RRsAi7DHujCgNsWmGr/fdbTqcrXXv2wsvlVCrUY6g1YptS 9Rva6VjRy7jOWW1HsRPBl4GjvEzZvHhoe4mcoiJcKHoJJJv/7c9F6ku9dGXMIR5+3R8Z2B 4REIDFnfqemy+D3HeAzs/GGblTpZTG5gMfxBdim5Ow65zrXV/CyUgahg4uEAfzE5EtK0P0 araFPDHcK5/YTBPW1oJvjYYy3iNVajQHPnAPTJYu//U26UXv2bjT9Wh0yDY0wA== Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:17:14 +0100 From: Dragan Simic To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] documentation: send-email: use camel case consistently In-Reply-To: References: <877b5bec11caa8a328ee0d4f226fe0666fd35a10.1708466383.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> Message-ID: <59cb804a0221038626f16a4b0138e3eb@manjaro.org> X-Sender: dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org On 2024-02-20 23:08, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Dragan Simic writes: > >> general rule for making abbreviations, with some exceptions. For >> example, >> one rather well-known exception to this general rule is "SoC", which >> is the >> abbreviation for "system-on-chip". [2] > > I am not opposed to say "we allow spelling 'carbon copy' as 'Cc' > because too many people mistakenly use that capitalization pattern", > which is what you earlier said, though. As I said, I do not insist > one or the other capitalization, as long as it is backed by solid > reasoning that would not confuse future developers. > > It is very common to omit upcasing prepositions, articles, etc. when > spelling acronyms in all capital, so "SoC" would not count as a good > example of an exception. That's the kind of bogus justification of > giving an exception to "Cc" I would rather want to avoid. It really > is only "Cc" that needs to justify exception in your patch. Alright, let's try v4 with no such examples.