Re: [PATCH 0/2] GIT, Git, git

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2013, 22:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20130119223105.GG4009@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <732444561.1327663.1358589465467.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail24.arcor-online.net>

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Ackermann wrote:

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> Git changed its 'official' system name from 'GIT' to 'Git' in v1.6.5.3
> (as can be seen in the corresponding release note where 'GIT' was 
> changed to 'Git' in the header line).
>
> Alas the documention uses 'GIT', 'Git' or even 'git' to refer to the
> Git system. So change every occurrence of 'GIT" and 'git' to 'Git'
> whenever Git as a system is referred to (but don't do this change
> in the release notes because they constitute a history orthogonal
> to the history versioned by Git).

I don't have any opinion about the subject at hand, except that making a consistent convention and documenting it somewhere to avoid future churn sounds like a fine idea.

Instead, I'm writing for a procedural nitpick ;-): please move the above rationale to one of the commit messages, so it gets recorded somewhere that future readers can easily find it.

Hope that helps, Jonathan