Shawn Pearce wrote:
> David Lang <dlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> a quick lesson on program nameing
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>> >I'm personally all for a rewrite of the necessary commands in C ("commit"
>> >comes to mind), but as many others, I have no personal interest in doing
>> >the actual work. I'm fairly certain that once we get it working natively
>> >on windows with some decent performance, windows hackers will pick up the
>> >ball and write "wingit", which will be a log viewer and GUI thing for
>> ^^^^^^
>>
>> how many other people read this as 'wing it' rather then 'win git'? ;-)
>
> Yes, that's certainly a less than optimal name...
>
> What about gitk? Is it "gi tk" or "git k" ? This has actually
> been the source of much local debate. :-)
You can always use CamelCase, i.e. WinGit or WinGIT (or wgit,
but this is also silly).
Cute names are taken: CoGITo, gitk, qgit (GTK+ history viewer is gitview,
not ggit, curiously ;-) and tig.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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