From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joachim Schmitz" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:03 +0100 Message-ID: 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; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 20 19:53:49 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 1Tx01a-0004U0-F6 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:46 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752286Ab3ATSxZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:53:25 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40037 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752271Ab3ATSxY (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:53:24 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx01S-0004RH-NM for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:38 +0100 Received: from dsdf-4db5faaa.pool.mediaways.net ([77.181.250.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:38 +0100 Received: from jojo by dsdf-4db5faaa.pool.mediaways.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:53:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsdf-4db5faaa.pool.mediaways.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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? 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? Bye, Jojo