Product name: "Mercurial" or "mercurial"?
Peter Arrenbrecht
peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 01:00:56 CDT 2008
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> On 30.03.2008 17:48, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> > On 30.03.2008 16:22, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >> "Mercurial" is the appropriate thing to use in prose. For the record,
> >> the old logo used lowercase "mercurial" too. And used "Hg", for that
> >> matter. So here are the rules:
> >>
> >> - "mercurial" in the logo
> >> - "mercurial" in filenames, package names, URLs, etc.
> >> - "Mercurial" everywhere else when referring to the software
> >> - "hg" when referring to the command
> >> - "Hg" when referring to the element or as a shorthand for Mercurial
> >>
> >> For the curious, some other projects with capitalized names but
> >> lowercase logos: Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Mozilla.
> >
> > Thanks Matt.
> >
> > I've applied the rules to the wiki start page:
> > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Mercurial?action=diff&rev2=138&rev1=137
> >
> > I hope the formatting is ok. Please edit if not. It uses the MoinMoin term definition
> > syntax as shown on HelpOnLists (" term:: definition").
>
> See also the new wiki page at
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ProductName
Adrian, thanks for getting this clarified and documented.
-peo
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