From: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
To: gitster@pobox.com, davvid@gmail.com
Cc: th.acker@arcor.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775908345.1391972.1358713010522.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail12.arcor-online.net> (raw)
>
> If I were to decide today to change the spellings, with an explicit
> purpose of making things more consistent across documentation, it
> may make sense to use even a simpler rule that is less error-prone
> for people who write new sentences that has to have the word. How
> about treating it just like any other ordinary word? That is, we
> say "git" (without double-quotes, of course), unless it comes at the
> beginning of a sentence?
>
The widely used books on Git by Scott Chacon or Jon Loeliger (and
many others) are using 'Git' instead of 'git' when talking about the
whole system. So IMHO it would not be wise to change our internal
documentation from using 'GIT'/'Git' to using 'git'. The internal
documentation should be a natural continuation of these books
by content and style.
- Just my thoughts.
---
Thomas
next reply other threads:[~2013-01-20 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-20 20:16 Thomas Ackermann [this message]
2013-01-20 21:08 ` Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 18:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] GIT, Git, git Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 18:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 18:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #1 Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 18:51 ` Aw: [PATCH v2 0/6] GIT, Git, git Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 19:12 ` [PATCH v3 " Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 19:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-22 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-22 9:44 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-22 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 19:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #1 Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-22 0:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-22 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #2 Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-23 0:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 2:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 3:44 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-23 4:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23 8:58 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 0:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 18:04 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 18:06 ` [PATCH 1/6] fixup! fixup! " Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:07 ` [PATCH 2/6] fixup! fixup! fixup! Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #1 Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 19:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/6] fixup! Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 18:10 ` [PATCH 4/6] Fix places where 'Git' should be 'git Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:11 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 19:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 18:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] Use consistent links for User Manual and Everyday Git; Fix a quoting error Thomas Ackermann
2013-02-01 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 19:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-01 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 20:25 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-21 19:21 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #3 Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-23 2:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 19:22 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] Change 'git' to 'Git' whenever the whole system is referred to #4 Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-23 3:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-21 19:24 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Add rule for when to use 'git' and when to use 'Git' Thomas Ackermann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-19 10:39 [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' David Aguilar
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 15:01 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-01-20 11:24 ` Matthieu Moy
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