[SVN] Naming the svn diff commands

[Chris Thomas]

On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> Well, they should be title-case.

Indeed, you're right.

> And in Apple's definition of that [1] coordinating conjunctions are  
> lowercased. Though I was never taught English grammar, so I don't  
> know if “with” is considered a coordinating conjunction.

Your grammar is frequently better than mine! "With" is a preposition,  
so it gets capitalized (four letters). (Tiger's dictionary lists the  
part of speech at the top of the entry for the word, BTW.)

> I have however ignored this for a lot of items and went with  
> sentence casing instead, since in particular snippets do not follow  
> the general menu item naming rules very well (i.e. they are not  
> actions). This of course has led to much inconsistency (especially  
> since I'm only the author of 2% in the repository ;) ). Maybe there  
> should be some guidelines wrt naming items. AHIG would work for  
> commands.

Yup. Most snippets are special cases, representing bits of libraries  
and languages, such that the normal rules don't make sense. I think  
HIG should be followed for commands, except when/if there's a  
compelling reason to do otherwise for a particular command.

Chris