From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:26:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhc1i83m5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <780e0a6b0903242321q252c4b44k3909bd79003ded6b@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Boyd's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:21:22 -0700")
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> How about a sentence with no negation?
>>>
>>> "Note that the leading dot is required if you want a dot between the
>>> patch name and the suffix."
>>
>> How about a sentence that does not sound requirement but freedom?
>>
>> "The leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you
>> can use --suffix=-patch to get 0001-description-of-my-change-patch".
>
> Looks even better. Do we still want to start off by saying "Note that the..." ?
Perhaps; I wasn't paying much attention to the whole sentence, but was
primarily interested about giving the description less negative
connotation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 10:21 [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups Stephen Boyd
2009-03-24 22:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-24 23:36 ` Stephen Boyd
2009-03-24 23:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-24 23:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-25 6:21 ` Stephen Boyd
2009-03-25 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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