From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Consensus on "Git" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:06:44 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8wedv3a3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git To: David Symonds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 11 10:07:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N89AM-0000t6-8E for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:07:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751690AbZKKJGv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751299AbZKKJGu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:50 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:59455 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbZKKJGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:49 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12917CC81; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:52 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=cnswaszNsA1GBA4XIGjq3zwIIW4=; b=yV59J7 cjkgukge3RjepmyNba/r2MwZzYm9QzdPZQse/THEj6EDX/TOH+5S3E7HtGKJK3Mg oktN5BicNPAHA6VrY/oxeWOeUuV100/vh8bU8/ZcyJ5fi9nFd04QRYVMHd9/WR40 9gGvl5PUNGhLfgCMkSIyIY4fkjTXVHSSvv69U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qQ6ghG2OKmo5YA4+YbXs4DjUNw1N4ovt kti4o6+xx6wgYRwDZH+u8om/jUuDrYbvvz2n745V/ra92C/UTsLzPe4U5jCG2V6U +K+QMXvyO7CqP/Q5jVY53/IWP5/1RpfeAvi/+vmTorUs0pMzkpoMNkzhbzlkIzBl IBVvKCX4baY= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28227CC80; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8190C7CC7F; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:06:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (David Symonds's message of "Wed\, 11 Nov 2009 19\:32\:30 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8C5D2370-CEA1-11DE-88DF-7B3EEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: David Symonds 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.