git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentation

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2007, 06:11 UTC
Message-ID
<7v7ioe1n5j.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To
<588192970708011017q12c7a6d9s532c8aed086d3032@mail.gmail.com>
"Steve Hoelzer" <shoelzer@gmail.com> writes:
Show 15 quoted lines
> On 8/1/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentation.
>>
>> It looks like that all the originals are trying to consistently
>> start with lowercase in an explanatory list.  Is this really
>> needed?
>
> The lists I changed were indeed all lowercase, but other lists in
> those files are all uppercase. I was aiming for consistency across all
> list items and all lists.

Fair enough. However, your patch was seriously whitespace mangled so I made matching edits by hand and committed the result. After I push out the result sometime tonight, please double check the result.

Previous: Steve Hoelzer
Message 4 of 4 in “Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentation”
  1. Try to be consistent with capitalization in the documentationSteve Hoelzer, Aug 1, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2007
  3. Steve HoelzerAug 1, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2007

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.