Re: [PATCH 1/1] Changed "&" with "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt.

[Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Oscar Utbult wrote:
> On 2014-09-25 16:48, Frans Klaver wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM,  <oscar@oscr.io> wrote:
> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Changed "&" with "and" in 
> >> Documentation/applying-patches.txt.
> > 
> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:
> > 
> > Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
> > instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
> > to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
> > its behaviour.
> 
> Thank you for your feedback Frans.
> 
> So for example a better description would have been: "use 'and' instead 
> of '&'"?

Yes. It is useful to still mention it is affecting documentation only
though. This helps identifying whether a change may be related to a
defect for example.

By the way, I just grepped through the documentation, and there are
quite some situations where this same change would happen, so if we care
enough, all those instances could be changed. I don't know if we care
enough though. That's for others, like Randy, to decide.

Frans