From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: grammar patches not best use of talent Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:51:34 +0800 Message-ID: <87bpudp77t.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> References: <7vprito32u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 03:53:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMCvI-0004u6-OJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:53:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752006AbZALCvk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:51:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751578AbZALCvk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:51:40 -0500 Received: from sd-green-bigip-81.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.81]:55184 "EHLO homiemail-a4.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbZALCvj (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:51:39 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-36-11.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.36.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a4.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530984093C for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:51:38 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've decided to back out of my plan to patch grammar. $ perl -nwle '/\w+\s+handful.*/i&& print $&' Documentation/*|sort -uf a handful commits on top of that, A handful documentation fixes. A handful documentation updates. a handful example hooks are copied in the a handful fixes to run it a handful of examples: A handful of sample hooks are installed when a handful pack-objects changes to help you cope better a handful small fixes to gitweb. a handful the real changes in non-zero first handful of characters, show the full only handful hexdigits prefix. only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of only handful hexdigits prefix. This is At first some of the above lines irritated me, but who am I to say that English must be said like my mom says it, and is never allowed to evolve further. Nope, I'll stick to correcting 2+2=3 type things.