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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: fix typo in advice message
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:55:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729045516.GC4766@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375071832-2959-1-git-send-email-ralf.thielow@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 06:23:52AM +0200, Ralf Thielow wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/push.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/push.c b/builtin/push.c
> index 6d36c24..04abd2d 100644
> --- a/builtin/push.c
> +++ b/builtin/push.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static const char message_advice_ref_fetch_first[] =
>  	N_("Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do\n"
>  	   "not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing\n"
>  	   "to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes\n"
> -	   "(e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.\n"
> +	   "(e.g. 'git pull ...') before pushing again.\n"

I do not think the comma is a typo. In American English it is usually
preferred, but googling "comma after e.g." seems to indicate that it is
not in British English.

Grep shows that we use both styles in quite a few places.

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-29  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29  4:23 [PATCH] push: fix typo in advice message Ralf Thielow
2013-07-29  4:55 ` Jeff King [this message]

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