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

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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
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Jan 20, 2013, 00:47 UTC
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> wrote:
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>>
>> What about GITweb?
>>
> You are right; I missed that because I grepped only for 'GIT' as a whole word.
> 'gitweb' and 'GITweb' should be changed to 'Gitweb'.
>
>>
>> IMO some of these look nicer when everything is lowercase.
>> e.g. "standard git committer ident format".
>>
> IMHO what seems nicer here is the spelling we are all accustomed to.
> The whole point of my patch is to use 'Git' consistently when
> we are talking about the system and not the individual command.
>
>>
>> $ git grep 'git repositor' | wc -l
>> 226
>>
>> These changes touch, for example, git-clone.txt to make it
>> say: "Make a 'bare' Git repository".  Why not lowercase?
>>
> When you also apply my second patch you only get 17 occurences of "git repository"
> which I missed to change to 'Git repository' ...
>
> Thanks for looking into this!

Thank *you* for tackling these last 226 and listening to my silly opinions. The end result will be much nicer all around.

-- 
David
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  2. 1/2 Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'Thomas Ackermann, Jan 19, 2013
  3. David AguilarJan 19, 2013
  4. Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'Thomas Ackermann, Jan 19, 2013
  5. David AguilarJan 20, 2013
  6. Matthieu MoyJan 20, 2013
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