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From: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Git is not an acronym
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:03:57 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 6/10/21 7:40 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Commit 651377933e031 cleaned up references to CVS replacing them with Git.
> Replacing CVS with Git in acronyms.sgml seems a bit incorrect though as Git
> isn't an acronym (but CVS is, hence the original item replaced).  We also never
> refer to Git with <acronym /> tags.  The attached removes Git from the acronyms
> page.

According to the README[1] and reference in the Wikipedia page that our
docs point too, "git" can be an acronym based on context. I don't think
it's harmful to leave it in.

Jonathan

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/README.md



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