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From: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Git is not an acronym
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:34:11 +0200
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> On 10 Jun 2021, at 15:03, Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Not harmful, but an acronym which we explain with the acronym itself doesn't
seem like helpful use of page real-estate.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

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