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Re: Consensus on "Git"

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2009, 09:02 UTC
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Heya,
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:32, David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:

Definitely "Git" or "git", the source code ones are probably from variable names, something like "GIT_INSTALL_DIR" and whatnot.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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