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Consensus on "Git"

From
David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2009, 08:32 UTC
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<ee77f5c20911110032r65a60653sfeef34e3de07d17e@mail.gmail.com>
Hi folks,

Is there consensus on "Git" being the standard capitalisation, versus "GIT"? I only really see "git" and "Git" on the mailing list and in most external documentation and websites (e.g. git-scm.com and github.com), but git's source tells a different picture:

$ cat *.[ch] | egrep -o '\bG[Ii][Tt]\b' | sort | uniq -c
  36 GIT
   7 Git
$ cat Documentation/* 2> /dev/null | egrep -o '\bG[Ii][Tt]\b' | sort | uniq -c
 284 GIT
 155 Git
Dave.
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