Re: [PATCH] Documentation: GPG capitalization

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 30, 2016, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4m9f8ajq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKp3HaMvsJ58fvtC+rp13wigw75vVm3F7T2U+Gqnyqke71279Q@mail.gmail.com>

David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com> writes:

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>>>  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?

I think the "Git" you see above is clearly the "stupid content tracker Git", not a particular implementation. It is more about the data model of Git than our particular implementation of it. jgit, a Java implementation of Git, does not care about the gibberish in the "--BEGIN PGP..." block the same way we don't care.