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);
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2005-07-15 0:52 [PATCH 2/6] ident.c: Disambiguate the error messages in setup_ident Eric W. Biederman
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