From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Miles Bader" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GIT uppercase annoying Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:57:40 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87tzrk450f.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <200708010120.l711KkLA019354@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200708010345.l713jYDl021710@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185940679 7470 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2007 03:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Dan Nicolaescu" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 05:57:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IG5LJ-000504-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:57:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IG5LI-0001GG-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IG5LF-0001GA-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IG5LC-0001Fy-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IG5LC-0001Fv-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.191]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IG5LC-0008TX-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so87130muf for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:57:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=uDitTWatSnPTUru9t1vxq/9wnnib0FkortpHOwhIO1kiLQsTqTN6a+uivEVxW8lyKy7kJSTPOOX1vGM3VkqMa3WP84zWFzBEEhGA45Ez34frrhrk00lgl1gPhLCKTNQp+zSL+N1Rq7fPEUcJQ1fqChNYEJ4ZWiWFM5SstEodfqU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=sQ7HGBFm2ynG6Vr6td+hl5DphFo+uYJasBwV3wo4KwxpaWcv6MsrEMSk4jbwRi6e1OEyU+a2+Y/eqwXd3urKdGkD/a55SQQJSKfDlLCwT6f+IG3CbFkctb0ARDx3mc56qGIK5bwrwWQuS+oc/zmal8yFzuMIpBkuv/2hIw84Ohs= Original-Received: by 10.86.57.9 with SMTP id f9mr229826fga.1185940660964; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.1.5 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:57:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200708010345.l713jYDl021710@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8df79a7839601eb0 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75880 Archived-At: On 8/1/07, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > I didn't see that thread; did they give any justification? > > I checked, it was a private message from Stefan before the file was > checked in. I remember the conversation right, "asked" was not > the right word to use. He just said that the convention has been to > use all-caps names or capitalized names, and that it would probably be > better to use HG instead of hg. I think the right solution then is to use capitalized names for these systems (ala "Arch"), not all uppercase -- that would match general usage better, and at least isn't obviously wrong like all-uppercase. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.