From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Nguyen Duc Thinh <ducthinh100812@gmail.com>
Cc: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nguyen Duc Thinh <ducthinh100812@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: process: Capitalize Git, Quilt, and Mercurial consistently
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:42:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871pbege59.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824133826.13934-1-ducthinh100812@gmail.com>
Nguyen Duc Thinh <ducthinh100812@gmail.com> writes:
> Update various process documentation files to properly capitalize "Git",
> "Quilt", and "Mercurial" as proper nouns when referring to the source
> management tools themselves.
>
> Instances explicitly referring to literal command-line invocations
> (such as "git log" or "git bisect") have been left lowercase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyen Duc Thinh <ducthinh100812@gmail.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - Fixed the un-staged git commit state; the 'git switch' changes are now officially gone from the diff.
> - Disclosure regarding tools: I DID NOT USE ANY KIND OF AI AS AN ASSISTANT IN THIS CONTRIBUTION, the mistake occured because I don't frequently use Git to send patches, I use it to open pull requests so sometimes it feels unfamiliar to migrate.
> - Is there any mistakes that I'm still having in this patch because everyone make mistakes.
>
> Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 18 ++++-----
> Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst | 10 ++---
> Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst | 36 +++++++++---------
> Documentation/process/backporting.rst | 18 ++++-----
> .../process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst | 2 +-
> .../process/maintainer-pgp-guide.rst | 38 +++++++++----------
> 8 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
jon
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 13:38 Nguyen Duc Thinh
2026-08-24 14:01 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-08-24 16:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-31 21:42 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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