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Re: Consensus on "Git"

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2009, 09:06 UTC
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David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

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