From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Kaartic Sivaraam" <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix small issues in SubmittingPatches
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 22:04:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C89BA7B590AA460BB298258BA85E8619@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGZ79kYg9jQ3kaKnNEJCH9fde=ar1KPiUr7=X+TguNc0Twqdzg@mail.gmail.com
From: "Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>
>> Further, remove duplicated space character.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing
> seems like a globally controversial thing. (I assumed
> it was some sort of local dialect before researching
> it properly)
>
> I personally do not mind one way or another regarding
> (double) spaces after a period, but I would think we'd
> strive for consistency throughout the project.
>
The use of double spaces was a taught typing technique as recently as the
early-mid 1980s when my wife did a UK university postgraduate secretarial
course. This was just before PC word processing took off. It takes a long
while for the old ways to die off!
--
Philip
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-30 11:09 [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix small issues in SubmittingPatches Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-30 11:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: add another way to identify if a patch has been merged Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-30 14:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix small issues in SubmittingPatches Philip Oakley
2017-07-30 16:17 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-30 16:18 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-07-31 20:23 ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-31 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-01 15:59 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-01 17:38 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-02 12:22 ` [RFC] The correct and consistent alternative to quote a command ? Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-02 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-02 17:32 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-03 15:35 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-01 16:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: fix small issues in SubmittingPatches Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-01 16:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: add another way to identify if a patch has been merged Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-01 17:46 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-02 12:32 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-02 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-02 16:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-02 17:58 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-07 14:34 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-07 14:33 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-08-01 21:04 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
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