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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement error
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:57:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180210165719.GE785098@genre.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeflvql6m.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:29:53PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu,  8 Feb 2018 02:56:14 +0000
> > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  Existing trailers are extracted from the input message by looking for
> >> -a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contains at
> >> -least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at
> >> +a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contain at
> >> +least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consist of at
> >>  least 25% trailers.
> >>  The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines.
> >>  The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last
> >
> > Ah, good catch. Maybe "a group of one or more lines that (i) consists of all
> > trailers, or (ii) contains ..."?
> 
> Your version reads better perhaps because it talks about "a group"
> without placing undue stress on the fact that the member of the
> group are usually multiple---I guess it is better over Brian's?

I'm happy to make the change to be all singular instead.
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-10 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08  2:56 [PATCH] docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement error brian m. carlson
2018-02-08 18:13 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-08 20:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-02-10 16:57     ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2018-02-13  2:23 ` [PATCH v2] " brian m. carlson
2018-02-13 18:41   ` Jonathan Tan

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