Re: [PATCH 01/13] Use 'Git' in help messages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 24, 2013, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr4k65box.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJDDKr5VG_c_RRK3Z++RNUev=3swmT0HUDocJE1h1QtSHYrYJA@mail.gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> This is referring to "git the command", not "git the system",
> so it should not be changed according to the rule that was
> applied when many "git" strings were changed to "Git".

That sounds like a sensible objection.

> There are scripts, etc. in the wild that parse this output.
> which is another reason we would not want to change this.

Are there?  For what purpose?

Especially when these are all _("l10n ready"), I find that somewhat unlikely.

The bash completion (in contrib/) does read from the command list IIRC. I do not think it relies on the messages, though.

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