David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Thomas Ackermann <th.ac...@arcor.de> 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 <ref>, "newsha1" is the 40 character hexadecimal value of >> <newvalue> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
