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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "阿德烈 via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 阿德烈 <adlternative@gmail.com>, "ZheNing Hu" <adlternative@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] builtin/*: update usage format
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:33:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5feb3e4eda10e_3ed2e20830@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.822.git.1609232114080.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

阿德烈 via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
> 
> According to the "Error Messages" section of
> Documentation/CodingGuidelines, we should not end in a full
> stop or start with a capital letter. Fix old error and usage
> messages to match this expectation.

I agree this consistency is good.

The only time where you need capital letters and full stops is when
there's multiple sentences.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-29  8:55 [PATCH] builtin/*: update usage format 阿德烈 via GitGitGadget
2020-12-29 14:33 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-01-06  7:05 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2021-01-06 12:03   ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-06 11:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " 阿德烈 via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 11:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] " ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 11:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] parse-options: format argh like error messages Junio C Hamano via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 12:05     ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-06 14:44   ` [PATCH v3 0/2] builtin/*: update usage format 阿德烈 via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 14:44     ` [PATCH v3 1/2] parse-options: format argh like error messages Junio C Hamano via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 14:44     ` [PATCH v3 2/2] builtin/*: update usage format ZheNing Hu via GitGitGadget
2021-01-06 23:14     ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Junio C Hamano

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