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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit-template: change a message to be more intuitive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:01:48 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <624d873b-74af-b3e8-714c-8a439f4ee81f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170913112013.sk7bqarq2ktrva67@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wednesday 13 September 2017 04:50 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> I agree with both of your points. It is very clear to me as a native
> speaker, but I can see how it might not be for everyone.
>
> Interestingly, the change here:
>
>>> -	const char *explanation = _("Do not touch the line above.\nEverything below will be removed.");
>>> +	const char *explanation = _("Do not edit the line above.\nEverything below will be removed.");
> actually seems less clear to me. I think of "edit" as "modify". But
> obviously it also should not be removed. Perhaps
>
>    Do not modify or remove the line above.
>
> would be the most clear. Or perhaps it is overly verbose.
>
Seems to be a valid point. Further, it doesn't seem to be too verbose at 
least to me. So, I'll change the
sentence and revert back to the one I use if someone finds it to be verbose.

---
Kaartic

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-12 10:55 [PATCH] commit-template: change a message to be more intuitive Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-13 10:29 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-09-13 11:20   ` Jeff King
2017-09-13 12:31     ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2017-09-13 13:05       ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-13 12:29   ` [PATCH] " Kaartic Sivaraam
     [not found] <<e656d1b4-c95e-e51d-5f48-bb3450580fa4@gmail.com>
2017-09-13 13:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-14  7:36   ` Michael J Gruber
2017-09-14 14:17     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-14 14:41       ` Jeff King
2017-09-15  2:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-09-15  4:50           ` [PATCH v3] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-15 10:00             ` Michael J Gruber
2017-09-15 12:39               ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-09-15  1:58     ` [PATCH v2] " Kaartic Sivaraam

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