From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Consensus on "Git"
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:06:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8wedv3a3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20911110032r65a60653sfeef34e3de07d17e@mail.gmail.com> (David Symonds's message of "Wed\, 11 Nov 2009 19\:32\:30 +1100")
David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
> Is there consensus on "Git" being the standard capitalisation, versus
> "GIT"?
I am not a consensus, but from day 1, Linus talked about "git" (all
lowercase) and "Git" was used only when it came at the beginning of a
sentence (an usual English capitalization rule) or in a section or book
title where all words (except prepositions such as "in", "on") are
capitalized, and I try to mimick it myself for consistency.
As a corollary, unless I spell all the other words in capital to SHOUT, I
never write GIT.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 8:32 Consensus on "Git" David Symonds
2009-11-11 9:02 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-11 9:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-11-11 9:27 ` Jeff King
2009-11-11 9:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-11 9:36 ` Jeff King
2009-11-11 9:21 ` Reece Dunn
2009-11-11 9:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-11-11 14:58 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-11-11 15:37 ` Michael J Gruber
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