Re: GIT uppercase annoying

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

  > Hi,
  > 
  > The vc-handled-backends entry for git and other new backends are ALL
  > UPPERCASE, which seems rather at odds with the way I've seen their names
  > used generally (I know historical entries like CVS and RCS are
  > uppercase, but they're traditinally _always_ written that way).
  > 
  > It may seem like a minor point, but this name is _constantly_ visible
  > because it's used for the mode-line display of files under version
  > control; while visiting files handled by git, in particular, I've found
  > this quite distracting (whereas I don't notice for files in CVS, becasue
  > I'm so used to uppercase "CVS").  Git doesn't really stand for anything,
  > and is most commonly used like a word, not an acronym; I gather the same
  > is true of systems like Bzr though I have less familiarity with them.
  > 
  > The current "all uppercase" nature of vc-handled-backends seems mostly
  > like people just copied the casification of the older entries when
  > adding new ones, but I'd really like to quash this trend and use a less
  > annoying convention for backends where that is more natural.

FWIW I agree. 
When I checked in vc-hg.el, someone asked for Hg (or hg?) to be
changed to HG...