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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 20, 2013, 19:02 UTC
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"Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:
> Because then it could get confused with "git", the command? That would
> be lower case even at the beginning of a sentence, wouldn't it?
Is it a real-world problem?

I think in a prose when you refer to "git" the command, you would say something like

	The `git` command started as a thin wrapper to many
	subcommand of the `git-subcmd` form.
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  5. David AguilarJan 20, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoyJan 20, 2013
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  8. Joachim SchmitzJan 20, 2013
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