{"thread":{"id":"21701","subject":"[PATCH] User Manual: Write \"Git\" instead of \"GIT\"","startedAt":"2009-11-22T09:47:04Z","lastAt":"2009-11-22T09:47:04Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Björn Gustavsson"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"128099","messageId":"4B090898.8020509@gmail.com","threadId":"21701","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] User Manual: Write \"Git\" instead of \"GIT\"","fromName":"Björn Gustavsson","fromEmail":"bgustavsson@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-11-22T09:47:04Z","receivedAt":"2009-11-22T09:47:04Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"bgustavsson@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74840?v=4"},"body":"In the Table of Contents, there is a notable inconsistency:\nfirst there is \"GIT Glossary\", followed by \"Git Quick Reference\"\non the very next line.\n\nRunning \"grep -c\" on user-manual.txt, I find 780 occurrrences of\n\"git\", 37 occurrences of \"Git\", and 9 occurrences of \"GIT\".\nIn general, \"git\" is the preferred spelling, except at the\nbeginning of a sentence.\n\nTherefore, change \"GIT Glossary\" to \"Git Glossary\" for consistency\nwith the rest of the document.\n\nLooking at the other eight occurrences of \"GIT\" I found one other\noccurrence that should be changed:\n\n* The mention of \"StGIT\". Looking at the web pages for \"Stacked Git\"\n  at http://www.procode.org/stgit, I only saw the spelling \"StGit\",\n  except in http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGIT_Tutorial,\n  but that page was last updated in 2006.\n\nThe other seven occurrences should not be changed:\n\n* Three occurrences were in the output of 'git show-branch' run\n  on the git.git repository.\n\n* One occurrence was in the output of 'git cat-file'.\n\n* One occurrence was as part of the file name \"GIT-VERSION-GEN\".\n\n* Two occurrences were in comments in scripts quoted in a description\n  of Tony Luck's workflow.\n\nSigned-off-by: Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@gmail.com>\n---\n Documentation/user-manual.txt |    4 ++--\n 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\nindex 269ec47..27d97b6 100644\n--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt\n@@ -2569,7 +2569,7 @@ them again with linkgit:git-am[1].\n Other tools\n -----------\n \n-There are numerous other tools, such as StGIT, which exist for the\n+There are numerous other tools, such as StGit, which exist for the\n purpose of maintaining a patch series.  These are outside of the scope of\n this manual.\n \n@@ -4275,7 +4275,7 @@ You see, Git is actually the best tool to find out about the source of Git\n itself!\n \n [[glossary]]\n-GIT Glossary\n+Git Glossary\n ============\n \n include::glossary-content.txt[]\n-- \n1.6.5.3.298.g39add\n"}]}