From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hansen Subject: Re: [PATCH] RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 00:14:17 -0400 Message-ID: <537AD699.8070503@bbn.com> References: <1400297434-30254-1-git-send-email-jstjohn@purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano , "Jason St. John" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 20 10:25:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WmbRb-0006fz-9v for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2014 06:14:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750819AbaETEOW (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 00:14:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.bbn.com ([128.33.1.81]:55633 "EHLO smtp.bbn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750699AbaETEOV (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2014 00:14:21 -0400 Received: from socket.bbn.com ([192.1.120.102]:57713) by smtp.bbn.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1WmbRd-000H40-Sn; Tue, 20 May 2014 00:14:30 -0400 X-Submitted: to socket.bbn.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A886401DD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2014-05-19 19:46, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Jason St. John" writes: >> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series >> UI, Workflows & Features >> >> * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated >> - to a more recent version from the upstream. >> + to a more recent version from upstream. > > Hmph, I have only one multi-mail upstream; shouldn't I call it "the" > upstream from my point of view? Plain "upstream" (without "the") is correct because it's an adverb, not a noun. (Alternatively, this could be written "from the upstream repository" or "from the upstream project".) >> @@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ notes for details). >> * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop. >> (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint). >> >> - * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch >> + * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch >> refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to > > Hmph, I read this as a "right-hand", a multi-word adjective, is used > to describe one "side" (the other side being the "left-hand side"). > Otherwise, you would be writing command-line-option, no? Are you reading the diff backwards? (The second hyphen is being removed, not added.) -Richard