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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Complain about sysadmins in the present tense.
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:10:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qawx1ir.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8y083k5o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:58:11 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
>> Actually I could not see something the system administrator
>> had bone being anything but present tense.  If you have to type
>> 500+ characters just to login, I think you would have noticed
>> and complained to your sysadmin earlier...
>
> I think "must have hate you" is simply an incorrect grammar, not
> present tense.  You mean "must hate you", perhaps?

Yes.  It looks like I failed to delete the have :(
Somethings you just can't see when you know what you meant.

Here is a patch to fix it up.

Eric

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 
---

 Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-var.txt         |    2 +-
 ident.c                           |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

554595e307653e90e5945bcef739fde935d7bcef
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ You don't exist. Go away!::
     The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read
 Your parents must have hated you!::
     The password(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer.
-Your sysadmin must have hate you!::
+Your sysadmin must hate you!::
     The password(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer.
 
 See Also
diff --git a/Documentation/git-var.txt b/Documentation/git-var.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-var.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-var.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ You don't exist. Go away!::
     The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read
 Your parents must have hated you!::
     The password(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer.
-Your sysadmin must have hate you!::
+Your sysadmin must hate you!::
     The password(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer.
 
 See Also
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ int setup_ident(void)
 	/* Make up a fake email address (name + '@' + hostname [+ '.' + domainname]) */
 	len = strlen(pw->pw_name);
 	if (len > sizeof(real_email)/2)
-		die("Your sysadmin must have hate you!");
+		die("Your sysadmin must hate you!");
 	memcpy(real_email, pw->pw_name, len);
 	real_email[len++] = '@';
 	gethostname(real_email + len, sizeof(real_email) - len);

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-15  0:52 [PATCH 2/6] ident.c: Disambiguate the error messages in setup_ident Eric W. Biederman
     [not found] ` <7vr7e03m4k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
     [not found]   ` <m1br54x324.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
     [not found]     ` <7v8y083k5o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-07-15  2:10       ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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