Re: [PATCH v3] documentation: send-email: use camel case consistently
On 2024-02-20 23:08, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:
>
>> general rule for making abbreviations, with some exceptions. For
>> example,
>> one rather well-known exception to this general rule is "SoC", which
>> is the
>> abbreviation for "system-on-chip". [2]
>
> I am not opposed to say "we allow spelling 'carbon copy' as 'Cc'
> because too many people mistakenly use that capitalization pattern",
> which is what you earlier said, though. As I said, I do not insist
> one or the other capitalization, as long as it is backed by solid
> reasoning that would not confuse future developers.
>
> It is very common to omit upcasing prepositions, articles, etc. when
> spelling acronyms in all capital, so "SoC" would not count as a good
> example of an exception. That's the kind of bogus justification of
> giving an exception to "Cc" I would rather want to avoid. It really
> is only "Cc" that needs to justify exception in your patch.
Alright, let's try v4 with no such examples.