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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: stepnem@gmail.com
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Fix a typo
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:27:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101009152758.GA17799@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286623119-13766-1-git-send-email-stepnem@gmail.com>

stepnem@gmail.com wrote:

> `${parameter/pattern/string}' shell expansion uses glob patterns, so
> talking about `regexp' is confusing.

Okay.

> - - No regexp ${parameter/pattern/string}.
> + - No substitution ${parameter/pattern/string}.

A bit confusing, since ${parameter%word} and $parameter are
substitutions, too.

Maybe

 - No pattern substitution ${parameter/pattern/string}.

to match the bash manual, would be clearer?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-09 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-09 11:18 [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: Fix a typo stepnem
2010-10-09 15:27 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-10-09 17:35   ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-09 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-11  6:44     ` Jonathan Nieder

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