From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:08:33 GMT Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Message-ID: <7vvcark1f2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <775908345.1391972.1358713010522.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail12.arcor-online.net> Thomas Ackermann writes: >> 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.