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From: "Ondřej Bílka" <neleai@seznam.cz>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix typos in comments
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:30:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130720203037.GA3753@domone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kzsVLGXZsxWO5rYahb39LSTFvGuE3hZaCgrJ=nuaoo7w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:21:10AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> > diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> > index 7fe0bff..9f29bb2 100644
> > --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> > +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> > @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >          *  3) git checkout <something> [<paths>]
> >          *
> >          * including "last branch" syntax and DWIM-ery for names of
> > -        * remote branches, erroring out for invalid or ambiguous cases.
> > +        * remote branches, erring out for invalid or ambiguous cases.
> 
> Didn't look through the entire patch, but this caught me eye: what's
> wrong with "erroring out"?
Well aspell did not know it so I thought that erring is more
appropriate. Now it looks more murky, see
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3059/is-errored-correct-usage

I am ok with removing this correction.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-20 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-20 19:07 [PATCH 1/2] Fix generic typos in comments Ondřej Bílka
2013-07-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] Fix " Ondřej Bílka
2013-07-20 19:39   ` brian m. carlson
2013-07-20 20:56     ` American or British English? Ondřej Bílka
2013-07-20 19:51   ` [PATCH 2/2] Fix typos in comments Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-20 20:30     ` Ondřej Bílka [this message]
2013-07-21 22:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-21 22:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] Fix generic " Junio C Hamano

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