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Is it "GIT" or "Git" or "git"? Standardize documentation?

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Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc>
Date
Dec 14, 2011, 00:43 UTC
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Okay, I'd like to hear opinions on this before creating a patch.

My perception is that "Git" is the name of the software, whereas "git" is used to refer to the actual command. But "GIT" is all over the documentation as well, most prominently at the top of README. Would anyone mind if we replaced all occurrences of "GIT" in the documentation with "Git"? I suppose the release notes shouldn't be touched for historical reasons.

Completely unrelated: Why is it "Documentation/RelNotes" and not something like "documentation/release-notes"? Almost everything else is spelled either all-lower- or all-uppercase.

Sorry for being such a nazi...
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