From: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Use 'First Paragraph' instead of 'First Line'.
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:20:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50524E23.2040507@codeweavers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwqzx62vv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
>> I did not substantially alter this. The emphasis of this section
>> is on the broader show-branch output, and belaboring the subject would
>> be distracting and unnecessary imho.
>
> Yeah, but if that is the focus of this part of the documentation,
> wouldn't a patch to update "the first line" with something more
> generic like "title of the commit" be more appropriate?
See my patch; I went with 'first part'. That, I think, does not
mislead (the goal of my change), but also does not distract from
the main point of the section (detailing the various bits of
git show-branch).
Cheers,
Jeremy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 12:42 [PATCH] Documentation: Use 'First Paragraph' instead of 'First Line' Jeremy White
2012-09-13 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-13 20:57 ` Jeremy White
2012-09-13 21:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-13 21:20 ` Jeremy White [this message]
2012-09-13 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-13 22:25 ` Jeremy White
2012-09-13 18:45 ` Philip Oakley
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