{"thread":{"id":"29159","subject":"Is it \"GIT\" or \"Git\" or \"git\"? Standardize documentation?","startedAt":"2011-12-14T00:43:33Z","lastAt":"2011-12-14T01:02:38Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Sebastian Morr","Andreas Ericsson","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"181105","messageId":"20111214004332.GA8464@thinkpad","threadId":"29159","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Is it \"GIT\" or \"Git\" or \"git\"? Standardize documentation?","fromName":"Sebastian Morr","fromEmail":"sebastian@morr.cc","sentAt":"2011-12-14T00:43:33Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-14T00:43:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sebastian@morr.cc","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81277?v=4"},"body":"Okay, I'd like to hear opinions on this before creating a patch.\n\nMy perception is that \"Git\" is the name of the software, whereas \"git\"\nis used to refer to the actual command. But \"GIT\" is all over the\ndocumentation as well, most prominently at the top of README.\nWould anyone mind if we replaced all occurrences of \"GIT\" in the\ndocumentation with \"Git\"?\nI suppose the release notes shouldn't be touched for historical reasons.\n\nCompletely unrelated: Why is it \"Documentation/RelNotes\" and not\nsomething like \"documentation/release-notes\"? Almost everything else is\nspelled either all-lower- or all-uppercase.\n\nSorry for being such a nazi...\n"},{"id":"181106","messageId":"4EE7F561.2040601@op5.se","threadId":"29159","inReplyTo":"20111214004332.GA8464@thinkpad","subject":"Re: Is it \"GIT\" or \"Git\" or \"git\"? Standardize documentation?","fromName":"Andreas Ericsson","fromEmail":"ae@op5.se","sentAt":"2011-12-14T01:01:21Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-14T01:01:21Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ae@op5.se","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/426e89595c75a8f5252dd0c989e5fabe5bcac616e68557427ad9aef6b0ca342a?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On 12/14/2011 01:43 AM, Sebastian Morr wrote:\n> Okay, I'd like to hear opinions on this before creating a patch.\n> \n> My perception is that \"Git\" is the name of the software, whereas \"git\"\n> is used to refer to the actual command. But \"GIT\" is all over the\n> documentation as well, most prominently at the top of README.\n> Would anyone mind if we replaced all occurrences of \"GIT\" in the\n> documentation with \"Git\"?\n> I suppose the release notes shouldn't be touched for historical reasons.\n> \n\nI doubt anyone cares all that much. I for one have absolutely no clue\nwhat you're talking about, but if you think it looks better one way\nthan the other and care about it enough, just make the patch and send\nit in for review. Consensus is never reached before there's code, and\nhardly ever after either, but discussing something that *might* happen\nand still doesn't affect my daily life feels utterly pointless.\n\n> Completely unrelated: Why is it \"Documentation/RelNotes\" and not\n> something like \"documentation/release-notes\"? Almost everything else is\n> spelled either all-lower- or all-uppercase.\n> \n\nFor tab-completion and directory listing reasons. Uppercase-D+tab puts\nyou in the right directory and uppercasing RelNotes makes it easy to\nfind among its many companions in that directory. It's fairly standard\nprocedure in the unix world to uppercase or camelcase the more important\ndocuments, and especially when there's more than a small handful of files\nin a single directory.\n\n-- \nAndreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se\nOP5 AB                             www.op5.se\nTel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231\n\nConsidering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and\nterror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war\non peace.\n"},{"id":"181107","messageId":"7vy5ugrmmp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"29159","inReplyTo":"20111214004332.GA8464@thinkpad","subject":"Re: Is it \"GIT\" or \"Git\" or \"git\"? Standardize documentation?","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2011-12-14T01:02:38Z","receivedAt":"2011-12-14T01:02:38Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc> writes:\n\n> Okay, I'd like to hear opinions on this before creating a patch.\n>\n> My perception is that \"Git\" is the name of the software, whereas \"git\"\n> is used to refer to the actual command.\n\nAnd \"GIT\" is used interchangeably with \"Git\" whenever the document author\nfeels like it warrants a bit more visibility than usual in the context.\nThink of it as typesetting in a font with small-caps or something ;-).\n"}]}