From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Documentation/git-commit.txt Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:58:08 +0100 Message-ID: <457D7200.6010102@op5.se> References: <200612100011.kBA0BuTo028252@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <200612100923.56707.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Horst H. von Brand" Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) In-Reply-To: <200612100923.56707.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gtmcs-0007aq-AM for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:59:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936335AbWLKO6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:58:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936340AbWLKO6M (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:58:12 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:41211 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936335AbWLKO6K (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:58:10 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA056BCBF; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:58:09 +0100 (CET) To: Alan Chandler Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 10 December 2006 00:11, Horst H. von Brand wrote: >> Alan Chandler wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> How about the following wording here >>> >>> Instead of staging the content of each file immediately after >>> changing it, you can wait until you have completed all the changes >>> you want to make and then use the `-a` option to tell `git commit` >>> to look for all changes to the content it is tracking and commit it >>> automatically. That >> ^^^^^^^ >> files >> (or "files whose contents") >> >>> is, this example ... >> [Yes, git tracks the contents of files, but it also has a list of >> files whose contents it is tracking] > > regardless, I think "it" should become "them" > > ... it is tracking and commit them automatically. > Works wonderfully, as the syntactically anal will notice that "them" refers to "the changes" while newbies glossing over the docs will think of "them" as "the files" (which is technically incorrect but amounts to the same thing from that same newbies perspective). -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se