Re: Consensus on "Git"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 11, 2009, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911111028040.19111@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20911110032r65a60653sfeef34e3de07d17e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, David Symonds wrote:

> Is there consensus on "Git" being the standard capitalisation, versus
> "GIT"?

There is definitely no consensus.

Personally, I started to capitalize it as a reaction to business types (apparently you have to turn in your sense of humor when you get an MBA), who were not happy with the abbreviation "global information tracker" (which would merit an all-capitalization a la CVS) [*1*], let alone with the connotation as a British slang word.

Yes, in Open Source, we are used to crude, geeky humor, some of us even accept blunt mails, but we are embedded in a world that is called "reality".

In my experience, in this world it is much easier to tell people that your program is called "Git" ("could have been John, either") and be done with the questions.

Ciao, Dscho

Footnote *1*: I tried once to reinterpret GIT as meaning "Git Is Terrific", but that did not fly too well. :-)