From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Several maintainers have expressed a stronger preference
to use '-' when in filename and option that contains multiple
words.
So document it in CODING_STYLE.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- New wording
- Update the section title
- Add Jan's acked-by
---
CODING_STYLE | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index ced3ade5a6fb..ed13ee2b664b 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ separate lines and each line should begin with a leading '*'.
* Note beginning and end markers on separate lines and leading '*'.
*/
+Naming convention for files and command line options
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+'-' should be used to separate words in commandline options and filenames.
+E.g. timer-works.
+
+Note that some of the options and filenames are using '_'. This is now
+deprecated.
+
Emacs local variables
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