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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