Do you know how to name a GitHub Repository?

Updated by Tiago Araújo [SSW] 4 years ago. See history

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❌ Figure: Bad example – Repository names are not consistently formatted

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😐 Figure: OK example – Repositories are following the lower-cased hyphenated format that is common for open source projects

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✅ Figure: Good example – Repository names are name-spaced in the format [CompanyName].[ProjectName]

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Adam Stephensen
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