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Re: GIT uppercase annoying
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: GIT uppercase annoying |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:20:46 -0700 |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> 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...