git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txt
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:02:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610251602.42433.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610251549.34193.andyparkins@gmail.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1891 bytes --]

From 9f5b5b3d4925ac5f22a64fd075c50417cff7b496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:59:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txt
To: git@vger.kernel.org

"what you are going to commit is" doesn't need the "is" and does need a comma.

"can trivially see" is an unecessary split infinitive and "easily" is a more
appropriate adverb.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
This corrects the previous grammar patch - the original use of "where" was 
correct.  You know when you say a word enough and it loses all meaning...

 Documentation/git-diff-index.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt 
b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 9cd43f1..2df581c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ If '--cached' is specified, it allows yo
 
 For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, 
updated
 some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly
-*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree
+*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree
 object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
 
 	git-diff-index --cached HEAD
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ matches my working directory. But doing 
   -100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        commit.c
   +100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        
git-commit.c
 
-You can trivially see that the above is a rename.
+You can see easily that the above is a rename.
 
 In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
 actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much
-- 
1.4.2.3


[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]

       reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200610251549.34193.andyparkins@gmail.com>
2006-10-25 15:02 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2006-10-25 18:42   ` [PATCH] Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txt Junio C Hamano
2006-11-02 11:12 Andy Parkins

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200610251602.42433.andyparkins@gmail.com \
    --to=andyparkins@gmail.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).