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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase interactive: Add hint how to continue after 'Unknown command' error
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:50:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080106195044.GA24169@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F80ADF7-A68A-4DF3-8453-92B76BC927EF@wincent.com>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>El 6/1/2008, a las 16:46, Steffen Prohaska escribió:
>
>> @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ do_next () {
>> 		;;
>> 	*)
>> 		warn "Unknown command: $command $sha1 $rest"
>> -		die_with_patch $sha1 "Please fix this in the file $TODO."
>> +		die_with_patch $sha1 "Please fix this in the file $TODO. And run  
>> 'git rebase --continue'."
>
>Grammar nit: sentences can't start with "And", so that should really be:

Not true:
<http://www.accu-assist.com/grammar-tips-archive/11-07-06_GrammarTip_and-but-conjunctions.htm>

Although, in this case, I would agree that it should just be one sentence
with a comma.  It's more of a stylistic construct, more common in fiction
than technical documentation.

Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 15:46 [PATCH] rebase interactive: Add hint how to continue after 'Unknown command' error Steffen Prohaska
2008-01-06 17:33 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-01-06 19:50   ` David Brown [this message]
2008-01-06 20:14     ` Junio C Hamano

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