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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: GPG capitalization

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 30, 2016, 18:02 UTC
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Dave Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com> writes:
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> When "GPG" is used in a sentence it is now consistently capitalized. When referring to the binary it is left as "gpg".
>
> Signed-off-by: David Nicolson <david.nicolson@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-mktag.txt         | 2 +-
>  Documentation/git-tag.txt           | 2 +-
>  Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
> index fa6a756..724408d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
>  by older Git may not have `tagger` line).  The message, when
>  exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
>  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.

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>  
>  GIT
>  ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> index abab481..32bc4aa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  
>  -v::
>  --verify::
> -	Verify the gpg signature of the given tag names.
> +	Verify the GPG signature of the given tag names.
>  
>  -n<num>::
>  	<num> specifies how many lines from the annotation, if any,
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
> index ecf4da1..0101f0f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-verify-commit.txt
> @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -Validates the gpg signature created by 'git commit -S'.
> +Validates the GPG signature created by 'git commit -S'.
>  
>  OPTIONS
>  -------
>  --raw::
> -	Print the raw gpg status output to standard error instead of the normal
> +	Print the raw GPG status output to standard error instead of the normal
>  	human-readable output.
>  
>  -v::
>
> --
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/246
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  5. Documentation: GPG capitalizationDave Nicolson, Jun 16, 2016
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