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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2013, 21:08 UTC
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Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:

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>> If I were to decide today to change the spellings, with an explicit
>> purpose of making things more consistent across documentation, it
>> may make sense to use even a simpler rule that is less error-prone
>> for people who write new sentences that has to have the word.  How
>> about treating it just like any other ordinary word?  That is, we
>> say "git" (without double-quotes, of course), unless it comes at the
>> beginning of a sentence?
>> 
>
> The widely used books on Git by Scott Chacon or Jon Loeliger (and
> many others) are using 'Git' instead of 'git' when talking about the 
> whole system. So IMHO it would not be wise to change our internal 
> documentation from using 'GIT'/'Git' to using 'git'. The internal 
> documentation should be a natural continuation of these books 
> by content and style.

That argument is going the other way around (we _are_ the authoritative source).

But I am OK with "Git" as a proper noun (which always begins with capital letter), using "git" only when it is something the user would type. Just come up with a simple-to-explain rule so that people will have no doubt which one to use in their new text and stick to it.

Thanks.