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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	liu.denton@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls-files: use imperative mood for -X and -z option description
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:30:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqee9javtd.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUij2Aj04B1Q1tRV@nand.local> (Taylor Blau's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:08:08 -0400")

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> Your patch looks fine to me. I don't think it's urgent to change, but it
> looks correct nonetheless.
>
>> Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>> Cc: <liu.denton@gmail.com>
>
> These Cc trailers can be removed. (They're not entirely unprecedented,
> but I can only find ~200 examples in git.git's history).

Yup, "can" and probably "should".  It is meant for consumption by
your e-mail software.

>>  		OPT_SET_INT('z', NULL, &line_terminator,
>> -			N_("paths are separated with NUL character"), '\0'),
>> +			N_("separate paths with NUL character"), '\0'),
>
> The text before your patch should include an article so it reads "with
> [the] NUL character" instead of "with NUL character".
>
> So I think the right post-image would be: "separate paths with the NUL
> character".

Correct.  Grammar fixes are very much appreciated, especially in an
international project like this one.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20 12:19 [PATCH] ls-files: use imperative mood for -X and -z option description Bagas Sanjaya
2021-09-20 15:08 ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-20 19:30   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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