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Re:The History of Git by gumby on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:35PM (#22300419)
In fact that description is even more wrong since every RCS has a copy of the checked out tree -- that's the whole point of an RCS!

With git (why does that article insist on spelling it "Git"?) you have a copy of the whole tree, so every clone can also be a an upstream tree for somebody else if desired.

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Re:The History of Git by erikstrottmann on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:53PM (#22300639)
AFAICT, Git documentation capitalizes the first letter:

> The advantages of Git compared to other source control systems. [0]

> You can learn more about individual Git commands with "git help command". [1]

[0] https://git-scm.com [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/git.1.html

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Re:The History of Git by gumby on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:49PM (#22302677)
Interesting, old programs like 'rm' only use lower case but new programs like bash and git (or should I say "Bash" and "Git") capitalize the program name sometimes.

Given that Unix (not "unix") inherited case sensitivity from Multics I would expect more consistency in the spelling.

(Clearly I'm focusing on the most important topics in computing!)

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