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[PATCH 1/2] Use capitalized names where appropriate

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henrik@austad.us <henrik@austad.us>
Date
Jan 5, 2009, 15:25 UTC
Message-ID
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From: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
The Linux kernel and Emacs are both spelled capitalized
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
---
 Documentation/gittutorial.txt |    4 ++--
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 7892244..458fafd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ list.  When the history has lines of development that diverged and
 then merged back together, the order in which 'git-log' presents
 those commits is meaningless.
 
-Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the linux kernel,
+Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the Linux kernel,
 or git itself) have frequent merges, and 'gitk' does a better job of
 visualizing their history.  For example,
 
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ digressions that may be interesting at this point are:
 
   * linkgit:git-format-patch[1], linkgit:git-am[1]: These convert
     series of git commits into emailed patches, and vice versa,
-    useful for projects such as the linux kernel which rely heavily
+    useful for projects such as the Linux kernel which rely heavily
     on emailed patches.
 
   * linkgit:git-bisect[1]: When there is a regression in your
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index d4b1e90..5242a7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ project in mind, here are some interesting examples:
 ------------------------------------------------
 	# git itself (approx. 10MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
-	# the linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
+	# the Linux kernel (approx. 150MB download):
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
 ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -1340,7 +1340,7 @@ These will display all commits which exist only on HEAD or on
 MERGE_HEAD, and which touch an unmerged file.
 
 You may also use linkgit:git-mergetool[1], which lets you merge the
-unmerged files using external tools such as emacs or kdiff3.
+unmerged files using external tools such as Emacs or kdiff3.
 
 Each time you resolve the conflicts in a file and update the index:
 
-- 
1.6.1.36.g8430e
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  4. Alexander PotashevJan 5, 2009
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