Re: Consensus on "Git"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 11, 2009, 09:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20091111092731.GA17422@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wedv3a3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:06:44AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > Is there consensus on "Git" being the standard capitalisation, versus
> > "GIT"?
> 
> I am not a consensus, but from day 1, Linus talked about "git" (all
> lowercase) and "Git" was used only when it came at the beginning of a
> sentence (an usual English capitalization rule) or in a section or book
> title where all words (except prepositions such as "in", "on") are
> capitalized, and I try to mimick it myself for consistency.
> 
> As a corollary, unless I spell all the other words in capital to SHOUT, I
> never write GIT.

Except for the title of every set of release notes, which all start with:

  GIT vX.Y.Z Release Notes

? :)

For a fun (ab)use of blame, you can see who wrote each of David's suspect lines with:

   git grep -n "\bGIT\b" |
   while IFS=: read file line junk; do
     git blame -f -L $line,$line $file
   done |
   less

Many of them are variables (e.g., \b gets rid of "_", but we still have "-", so GIT-VERSION and such are still there). Many others are the title of the "GIT" section of the manpages. But there are some legitimate uses, too. Many of them blame to quite a long time ago, though (e.g., Documentation/everyday.txt has two uses by you in 2005).

-Peff