From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20070612175421.GA26767@fieldses.org> References: <588192970706120518p201b52fdi9ed48896278b9f3e@mail.gmail.com> <200706121643.19837.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 12 19:54:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HyAZV-0005A1-Ey for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:54:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755532AbXFLRyY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755416AbXFLRyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:23 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:46418 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754888AbXFLRyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:23 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HyAZR-00004v-GY; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706121643.19837.andyparkins@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:43:19PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote: > - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require > the hyphen Right, but when you've got a couple words functioning together to modify a following noun, the hyphen's pretty standard: "rosy-fingered dawn". Is this case an exception? I suspect it's fine either way.... > - "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer Reference? > - "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version > of this patch > - "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish" > - "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to" > rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to" Fair enough, thanks. What we really need is a complete recovery tutorial to stick in here someplace. (One day git complains about a corrupt pack file. What do you do?) What's been stopping me from doing it, besides time, is no idea how to come up with a good example to work with. --b.