From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:33:07 -0800 Message-ID: <7vehhfn1r0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <732444561.1327663.1358589465467.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net> <379071741.1327695.1358589560822.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Ackermann , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Aguilar X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 20 19:36:04 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 1TwzkQ-0008Iz-Ij for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:36:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752373Ab3ATSdL (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:33:11 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:44174 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752324Ab3ATSdK (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:33:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCA1BB2E; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:33:09 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=4BPLgFJu+sNN8Cwwzrt4s1wdCeM=; b=ppza4X 6/57Vzdo60RNyO/ZrHkbf5/FPhGzAoJDaTMN23ClmSKu4C3tGF/0uxxI4fZgB3rV d7pohhVG6dlMhNDFN9IK+1qRHTixcvRR5eFLGo1oVbjrzZ9NS3AoAzkmyyCxiQ/c f6L+6MU7msx0NhDbatvTYn0lGxJ4untvdHzWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=VYaHXexftfiFmL9+3c4Ciw+esWfDtM1r 9/ZVtWI8YnBbgb3uREV/kf/WUKCQCLs7PfNd9b63zRkyGyVvHGVmd+yJKGCKgPCm 0JoS47oPkvNSbCAzwtTjYWeEUjF0EAMNqKxcLYjOk80o5JirEP8xXQbkOnnBHVa3 OMZbuVfXZWc= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8104DBB2D; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:33:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DE106BB2B; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:33:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (David Aguilar's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:39:36 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D693F8D0-632F-11E2-9DBA-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-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 Aguilar writes: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Thomas Ackermann wrote: >> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ History Viewers >> >> - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core) >> >> - GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories. >> + GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories. > > What about GITweb? > >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >> index d377a35..0df13ff 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ in ref value. Log lines are formatted as: >> Where "oldsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value previously >> stored in , "newsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value of >> and "committer" is the committer's name, email address >> -and date in the standard GIT committer ident format. >> +and date in the standard Git committer ident format. > > IMO some of these look nicer when everything is lowercase. > e.g. "standard git committer ident format". I do not think we ever intended to change the *name* of the software. In the early days, we wrote GIT in places where, if we were doing a fancier typography, we would have used drop-caps for the latter two (i.e. it is "Git" spelled in a font whose lower case alphabets have the same shape as upper case ones but are smaller). So there were only "git" vs "Git". 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?