Is there a naming convention for git repositories?

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Adrian M picture Adrian M · Aug 14, 2012 · Viewed 198.5k times · Source

For example, I have a RESTful service called Purchase Service. Should I name my repository:

  1. purchaserestservice
  2. purchase-rest-service
  3. purchase_rest_service
  4. or something else?

What's the convention? How about in Github? Should public repositories follow some standard?

Answer

Aaron Digulla picture Aaron Digulla · Aug 14, 2012

I'd go for purchase-rest-service. Reasons:

  1. What is "pur chase rests ervice"? Long, concatenated words are hard to understand. I know, I'm German. "Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänspatentausfüllungsassistentenausschreibungsstellenbewerbung."

  2. "_" is harder to type than "-"

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