Re: [PATCH] Fix a typo in git-maintenance documentation

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Nils Leif Fischer via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
writes:

> From: Nils Leif Fischer <nils.fischer@aei.mpg.de>
>
> Signed-off-by: Nils Leif Fischer <nils.fischer@aei.mpg.de>
> ---
>     Fix typo in git-maintenance documentation
>     
>     Just a small typo.

This is from the very beginning at 2057d750 (maintenance: create
basic maintenance runner, 2020-09-17), I think.

> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-984%2Fnilsleiffischer%2Fnilsleiffischer-patch-1-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-984/nilsleiffischer/nilsleiffischer-patch-1-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/984
>
>  Documentation/git-maintenance.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
> index 80ddd33ceba0..8023504dc65d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-maintenance.txt
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ any object transfer.
>  
>  gc::
>  	Clean up unnecessary files and optimize the local repository. "GC"
> -	stands for "garbage collection," but this task performs many
> +	stands for "garbage collection", but this task performs many

Isn't this merely an American style vs British style issue?


>  	smaller tasks. This task can be expensive for large repositories,
>  	as it repacks all Git objects into a single pack-file. It can also
>  	be disruptive in some situations, as it deletes stale data. See
>
> base-commit: a5828ae6b52137b913b978e16cd2334482eb4c1f


cf.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks
https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.html
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/quotation_marks/more_quotation_mark_rules.html