From: Joachim Schmitz Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:53:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vehhfn1r0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > David Aguilar writes: > >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Thomas Ackermann >> wrote: >>> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ History Viewers >>> >>> - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core) >>> >>> - GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for GIT repositories. >>> + GITweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories. >> >> What about GITweb? >> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >>> b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index d377a35..0df13ff 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt >>> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ in ref value. Log lines are formatted as: >>> Where "oldsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value previously >>> stored in , "newsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value of >>> and "committer" is the committer's name, email address >>> -and date in the standard GIT committer ident format. >>> +and date in the standard Git committer ident format. >> >> IMO some of these look nicer when everything is lowercase. >> e.g. "standard git committer ident format". > > I do not think we ever intended to change the *name* of the > software. > > In the early days, we wrote GIT in places where, if we were doing a > fancier typography, we would have used drop-caps for the latter two > (i.e. it is "Git" spelled in a font whose lower case alphabets have > the same shape as upper case ones but are smaller). So there were > only "git" vs "Git". > > If I were to decide today to change the spellings, with an explicit > purpose of making things more consistent across documentation, it > may make sense to use even a simpler rule that is less error-prone > for people who write new sentences that has to have the word. How > about treating it just like any other ordinary word? That is, we > say "git" (without double-quotes, of course), unless it comes at the > beginning of a sentence? Because then it could get confused with "git", the command? That would be lower case even at the beginning of a sentence, wouldn't it? Bye, Jojo