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 11:02:08 -0800 Message-ID: <7vobgjllu7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <732444561.1327663.1358589465467.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net> <379071741.1327695.1358589560822.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net> <7vehhfn1r0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Joachim Schmitz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 20 20:02:33 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 1Tx0A4-0006jd-9c for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:02:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752331Ab3ATTCL (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:02:11 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:57332 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752241Ab3ATTCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:02:10 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753DFA883; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:02:10 -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=axEhNa1smk4ePjSlD7NNG7vlKTI=; b=BfZmtF Vx9zVpG6b0qL0hyBDKVnu8OP6d7IAzMMcK+QUj72wl5U7p2Eqxg1CfsiMJUPOn+t iBzJOllx08invd7dYdqllh9jZ7S7IxdODa6eEDnh5M8Om0+kipW07P1nj/tbuDBW xCMODhSI3HoUZKPAlelBsy1Ig0a2Cis7LSZnY= 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=i7V85syGcAvc8HdPpfid3Ijc2P1Liu2j KMrBLntrwf4UUzWlDIgeTFiZNNQYjYISGc9xz8U4vGOhi6pzWHPmWTVeC85RUkbZ Cth/10BRobPE0/ySYDtdGNhf4MKXQrIUqldVKwdzWkJEdfW4kPOK1YbBMkKw8Rga wpntfUReOLE= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A73FA881; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:02:10 -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 DDDEFA87D; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:02:09 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Joachim Schmitz's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E44B4BDC-6333-11E2-8597-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: "Joachim Schmitz" writes: > Because then it could get confused with "git", the command? That would > be lower case even at the beginning of a sentence, wouldn't it? Is it a real-world problem? I think in a prose when you refer to "git" the command, you would say something like The `git` command started as a thin wrapper to many subcommand of the `git-subcmd` form.