[PATCH 03 of 21] capitalize Mercurial

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Sat Jan 3 12:34:41 CST 2009


On 03/01/2009 19:18, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Yes, but wouldn't it be more correct to write a name like Mercurial in
> its correct form? Unless we agree that this project is called
> "mercurial" -- like in the logo... :-)

Like in many open source projects (and other Unix software), I think 
both forms can be used. The package is also called "mercurial", after all.

> By the way, I also had a patch at some point which changed "mq" into
> "MQ" since it is an abbreviation of "Mercurial Queues". But the source
> and most of the wiki call it the "mq extension". On the other hand, the
> book by Bryan talks about MQ.

Same for MQ. :)

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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