Is there a naming convention for git repositories?

Question

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

purchaserestservice

purchase-rest-service

purchase_rest_service

or something else?

What's the convention? How about in github? Should public repos follow some standard?

Answer 1

There are two ways of naming 

1. Lowercase-with-hyphens

2. Lowercase_with_underscores 

I would recommend you to use lowercase-with-hyphens which is widely used and it is easy to understand rather than the rest method and ‘_’ is somewhat hard to give compared to hyphens.

Better to use this for your git repositories also has the most developers use the same way for naming their git repositories.