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From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:00:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prad9d2n.fsf@jondo.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vab1hdppb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:14:24 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> +	operation to a subset of the working tree. See section
>> +	``INTERACTIVE MODE'' for details.
>
> It is not justified with your commit log message, I do not see why you
> have to shout in all CAPS, 

There are plenty of examples, that it's standard practise to refer top
level headings, in all caps, from:

    POSIX/SusV guides for manual pages: "1.11 Utility Description Defaults"
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap01.html#tag_01_11

Jari

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-30 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-30 17:29 [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 21:02   ` Jeff King
2009-08-30 21:56   ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 22:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 23:06       ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 23:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-31  7:46           ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-31 23:42             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-13  6:44               ` [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add Jari Aalto
2009-09-13 13:48                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-09-13 14:09                   ` Jari Aalto
2009-09-14 13:13                     ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-09-15  5:35                       ` [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add (updated patch) Jari Aalto
2009-09-15  6:52                         ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-09-15  8:17                           ` Jari Aalto
2009-09-15 10:35                             ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-08-30 23:31         ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms Junio C Hamano
2009-08-31  7:06           ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-31  7:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 22:00   ` Jari Aalto [this message]

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