Re: Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Matthieu Moy
Thomas Ackermann th.ac...@arcor.de writes: The whole point of my patch is to use 'Git' consistently when we are talking about the system and not the individual command. I like the idea. git should obviously remain lower-case when talking about the command, but deserves a capital when talking

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Joachim Schmitz
Junio C Hamano wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Joachim Schmitz j...@schmitz-digital.de writes: 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? Is it a real-world problem? I think in a prose when you refer to git the command, you would say something like

Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Thomas Ackermann
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

Re: Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thomas Ackermann th.ac...@arcor.de writes: 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

[PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-19 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann th.ac...@arcor.de --- Documentation/asciidoc.conf | 2 +- Documentation/everyday.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt | 2

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-19 Thread David Aguilar
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

Aw: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-19 Thread Thomas Ackermann
What about GITweb? You are right; I missed that because I grepped only for 'GIT' as a whole word. 'gitweb' and 'GITweb' should be changed to 'Gitweb'. IMO some of these look nicer when everything is lowercase. e.g. standard git committer ident format. IMHO what seems nicer here is

Re: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Change old system name 'GIT' to 'Git'

2013-01-19 Thread David Aguilar
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Thomas Ackermann th.ac...@arcor.de wrote: What about GITweb? You are right; I missed that because I grepped only for 'GIT' as a whole word. 'gitweb' and 'GITweb' should be changed to 'Gitweb'. IMO some of these look nicer when everything is lowercase.