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From: Alexander Potashev <aspotashev@gmail.com>
To: daly@axiom-developer.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: builtin-add.c patch
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:26:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081210142632.GA4137@myhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812101238.mBACcWQk023480@axiom-developer.org>

Hello, Tim!

On 06:38 Wed 10 Dec     , daly@axiom-developer.org wrote:
> A trivial patch to fix a typo -- Tim Daly
> 
> 
> diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
> index ea4e771..5f2e68b 100644
> --- a/builtin-add.c
> +++ b/builtin-add.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void fill_pathspec_matches(const char **pathspec, char *seen, int specs)
>  	int num_unmatched = 0, i;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Since we are walking the index as if we are warlking the directory,
> +	 * Since we are walking the index as if we are walking the directory,
We probably should use subjunctive here:
"Since we are walking the index as if we _were_ walking the directory,".

Are there any native English speakers? :)
>  	 * we have to mark the matched pathspec as seen; otherwise we will
>  	 * mistakenly think that the user gave a pathspec that did not match
>  	 * anything.
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It's also better to change the commit message, one should be able to
realize from it that the change is a typo fix in comments.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 12:38 builtin-add.c patch daly
2008-12-10 14:26 ` Alexander Potashev [this message]
2008-12-10 16:01   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2008-12-10 19:10   ` root
2008-12-10 22:27     ` [PATCH (resend)] Fix typo in comment in builtin-add.c Alexander Potashev
2008-12-10 23:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-10 19:14   ` builtin-add.c patch root
2008-12-10 20:10     ` Alexander Potashev

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