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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: GPG capitalization

From
David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com>
Date
May 30, 2016, 21:43 UTC
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Dave Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When "GPG" is used in a sentence it is now consistently capitalized. When referring to the binary it is left as "gpg".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git-mktag.txt         | 2 +-
>>  Documentation/git-tag.txt           | 2 +-
>>  Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt | 4 ++--
>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
>> index fa6a756..724408d 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
>> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
>>  by older Git may not have `tagger` line).  The message, when
>>  exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
>>  message part may contain a signature that Git itself doesn't
>> -care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
>> +care about, but that can be verified with GPG.
>
> Isn't this a name of the program, though?  Other two hunks in your
> patch clearly refer to the concept and not to a particular program,
> and they are good changes, I think.

This one was not as clear as the other hunks. Git is referred to as "Git" in the preceding line, which in itself could be referring to the concept or the particular program I guess?

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