From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Ackermann Subject: Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <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: th.acker@arcor.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com, davvid@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 20 21:17:39 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 1Tx1Kh-00084Z-45 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:17:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752463Ab3ATUQw (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:16:52 -0500 Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]:47072 "EHLO mail-in-13.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404Ab3ATUQw (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:16:52 -0500 Received: from mail-in-16-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.33]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95023212658; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mail-in-16-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893DC3FE9CB; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail12.arcor-online.net (webmail12.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.64]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C5E9BCEB; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-14.arcor-online.net 80C5E9BCEB DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=arcor.de; s=mail-in; t=1358713010; bh=Ryp5o3cG74BsPA1DALGlgpmO0GMyrlhdYXCUEl9YsgI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Message-ID:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Z1xBtJIIRIMoVRtaBCBJvGuRWKi3t06NYikb1Eq/yIU9mj6QBxg34Xd+Ry82CYoSl 0dQtr+iQMGZTbAPU8uowoo0tJ+0mpxhz8E9HX56u3QfToNzONgEOxUwTx32eZ3p58u PYlh2znP2zb3OYWPzVWqj+NRjXy1IQbjh+vc4o9E= Received: from [94.217.21.22] by webmail12.arcor-online.net (151.189.8.64) with HTTP (Arcor Webmail); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:16:50 +0100 (CET) X-ngMessageSubType: MessageSubType_MAIL X-WebmailclientIP: 94.217.21.22 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > > 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