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From: Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:49:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7861092D-582B-4918-AF3D-BF595B195673@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimieHJaw1UmKtQvS4=2i8TrmR5A5zFO13NaNBo=@mail.gmail.com>

On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 17:23, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hmph, we probably would want to do s/50 character/&s/ in the two  
>> manual
>> pages.
>
> I'm not sure if "with a single short (less than 50 character) line" is
> is grammatically correct with "characters", since "characters line"
> wouldn't make sense.
>
> On the other hand that sentence violates the rule that when you put
> something in parens your sentence should still make sense with
> s/[()]//g, "a single short less than 50 character line" is pushing it.

If the number of characters is less than 50, then there are fewer than  
50 characters.

This is a short line of fewer than 50 characters.

Cheers,
Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 14:11 [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-28 17:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-28 19:25   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-28 19:49     ` Joshua Juran [this message]
2010-07-28 20:15       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-28 20:32         ` Joshua Juran

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