From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:06:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Consensus on "Git"
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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.