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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ls-tree manpage: use "unless" instead of "when ... is not"
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:13:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090510161345.GA26327@blimp.localdomain> (raw)

Delayed negation in a statement is harder to spot and keep in mind.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index f68e5c5..8292059 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Output Format
 -------------
         <mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>
 
-When the `-z` option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
+Unless the `-z` option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
 in pathnames are represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
 
 When the `-l` option is used, format changes to
-- 
1.6.3.28.ga852b

             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-10 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-10 16:13 Alex Riesen [this message]
2009-05-10 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] ls-tree manpage: output of ls-tree is compatible with update-index Alex Riesen

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