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From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:35:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E284750.4040104@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311095876-3098-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

On 07/19/2011 01:17 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Enable future callers to report a conflict and not die immediately by
> introducing a new function called error_resolve_conflict.
> Re-implement die_resolve_conflict as a call to error_resolve_conflict
> followed by a call to die.  Consequently, the message printed by
> die_resolve_conflict changes from
>
> fatal: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
>         Please, fix them up in the work tree ...
>         ...
>
> to
>
> error: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
> hint: Please, fix them up in the work tree ...
> hint: ...
> fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.

This is a tiny grammar nit, but "Please," sounds superfluous now that 
it's preceded by "hint:".  "Hint" sounds like I'm doing you a favor by 
telling you something to do.  "Please" sounds like you're doing me a 
favor by doing something.  Together they just sound like a typo.

In either case, the comma after "Please" is wrong.  (There are other 
messages in the git code which make this same mistake, but there are 
more which use "Please <imperative-verb>..." correctly.)

Note: I see this repeated in patch 06/18 in this series, and there are 
probably others.

Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-19 17:17 [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion v2 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-21 15:35   ` Phil Hord [this message]
2011-07-22 22:35     ` Jeff King
2011-07-24 10:23       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-24 18:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-25 21:17         ` Phil Hord
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 02/18] config: Introduce functions to write non-standard file Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 19:55   ` Jeff King
2011-07-19 20:35     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-07-19 21:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-19 21:57       ` Jeff King
2011-07-24 10:17         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 03/18] revert: Simplify and inline add_message_to_msg Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 04/18] revert: Don't check lone argument in get_encoding Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 05/18] revert: Rename no_replay to record_origin Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 06/18] revert: Propogate errors upwards from do_pick_commit Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 07/18] revert: Eliminate global "commit" variable Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 08/18] revert: Introduce struct to keep command-line options Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 09/18] revert: Separate cmdline parsing from functional code Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 10/18] revert: Don't create invalid replay_opts in parse_args Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 11/18] revert: Save data for continuing after conflict resolution Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 12/18] revert: Save command-line options for continuing operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 13/18] revert: Make pick_commits functionally act on a commit list Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 14/18] revert: Introduce --reset to remove sequencer state Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 15/18] reset: Make reset remove the " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 16/18] revert: Remove sequencer state when no commits are pending Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 17/18] revert: Don't implictly stomp pending sequencer operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 17:17 ` [PATCH 18/18] revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 18:47 ` [GSoC update] Sequencer for inclusion v2 Junio C Hamano
2011-07-20  9:02   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-19 23:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-24 10:11   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-24 18:17     ` Junio C Hamano
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-27  3:18 [PATCH 00/18] GSoC update: Sequencer for inclusion v3 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-27  3:18 ` [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-28 16:52 [PATCH 00/18] Sequencer for inclusion v4 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-07-28 16:52 ` [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-08-01 18:06 [PATCH v5 00/18] Sequencer for inclusion Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-08-01 18:06 ` [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-08-04 10:38 [PATCH 00/18] Sequencer for inclusion v6 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-08-04 10:38 ` [PATCH 01/18] advice: Introduce error_resolve_conflict Ramkumar Ramachandra

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