From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:55:59 -0700 Message-ID: <7vskl2tr00.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1237803683-14939-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> <20090324220913.GN19389@fieldses.org> <780e0a6b0903241636j4749daf3xddb6e4c200c00820@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Boyd X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 25 00:57:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmGV3-0002yD-1x for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:57:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755446AbZCXX4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755375AbZCXX4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:11 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:42951 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753606AbZCXX4K (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:10 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2199B71; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 93E349B6F; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <780e0a6b0903241636j4749daf3xddb6e4c200c00820@mail.gmail.com> (Stephen Boyd's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:36:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 55B54B8C-18CF-11DE-AF74-C5D912508E2D-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Stephen Boyd 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".