Re: Consensus on "Git"

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:27:31AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

For a fun (ab)use of blame, you can see who wrote each of David's
suspect lines with:

   git grep -n "\bGIT\b" |
   while IFS=: read file line junk; do
     git blame -f -L $line,$line $file
   done |
   less

Many of them are variables (e.g., \b gets rid of "_", but we still have
"-", so GIT-VERSION and such are still there). Many others are the title
of the "GIT" section of the manpages. But there are some legitimate
uses, too. Many of them blame to quite a long time ago, though (e.g.,
Documentation/everyday.txt has two uses by you in 2005).

BTW, here is a much better grep (still a few false positives, but most
lines are meanginful):

   git grep -n -E "(^|[^A-Z_-])GIT($|[^A-Z_-])" |
   grep -v ':GIT$' |
   while IFS=: read file line junk; do
     git blame -f -L $line,$line $file
   done |
   less

You can really see that most of the uses of GIT are ancient. I wonder if
we should downcase the few that are in user-visible error messages. I
will let somebody else spend their time on such a conversion if they
want, though. I've already spent enough on this. :)

-Peff