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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: git-fmt-merge-message problem..
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:46:48 -0700
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, this is a simple mistranslation from Perl to C.  A patch
>> will follow shortly.
>
> On a similar vein, how about this?
>
> I always end up editing the revert sentence by hand to make grammatical 
> sense.
>
> I think we always talk about "commit xyz".
>
> We never talk about "xyz commit", except when we end up talking about a 
> commit as a branch head (notably, I would say "the HEAD commit", or 
> possibly "the top-of-master commit", but here $commit is a SHA1 name, not 
> anything else).
>
> Hmm?

Makes sense.  Sign-off ;-)?

I wonder if we would want to abbreviate this, though.