Is there a naming convention for git repositories?

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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?

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If you plan to create a PHP package you most likely want to put in on Packagist to make it available for other with composer. Composer has the as naming-convention to use vendorname/package-name-is-lowercase-with-hyphens.

If you plan to create a JS package you probably want to use npm. One of their naming conventions is to not permit upper case letters in the middle of your package name.

Therefore, I would recommend for PHP and JS packages to use lowercase-with-hyphens and name your packages in composer or npm identically to your package on GitHub.

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