From 48a8c26c625a4d3631c4f614bceb38933e741408 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Ackermann Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:16:20 +0100 Subject: Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT In the earlier days, we used to spell the name of the system as GIT, to simulate as if it were typeset with capital G and IT in small caps. Later we stopped doing so at around 1.6.5 days. Let's stop doing so throughout the documentation. The name to refer to the whole system (and the concept it embodies) is "Git"; the command end-users type is "git". And document this in the coding guideline. Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines') diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 69f7e9b76c..423ea666f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -230,3 +230,8 @@ Writing Documentation: valid usage. "*" has its own pair of brackets, because it can (optionally) be specified only when one or more of the letters is also provided. + + A note on notation: + Use 'git' (all lowercase) when talking about commands i.e. something + the user would type into a shell and use 'Git' (uppercase first letter) + when talking about the version control system and its properties. -- cgit v1.2.1