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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, emilyshaffer@google.com,
	martin.agren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitfaq: cleanup gitfaq.txt
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:15:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtv1wt29v.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407010709.GK6369@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 2020 01:07:09 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I'm fine with or without this change.  I think the original is clear to
> a native English speaker, but if we think it will be easier to parse or
> harder to misread with "made", then I'm in favor of the change.  I, of
> course, cannot speak for how either one reads to a non-native speaker.

I am not a native, but if I were writing it I would probably have
written without the "made", so I guess I am in slight favor of not
changing this part.

> I'm not sure it's fair to categorize it as a "grammatical mistake",
> though.

The patch certainly is an attempt to make the text better, but I
agree that the patch does not correct any "mistake".

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06 18:12 [PATCH 0/2] Add more issues in gitfaq Shourya Shukla
2020-04-06 18:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] gitfaq: cleanup gitfaq.txt Shourya Shukla
2020-04-06 19:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 23:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-07  1:07     ` brian m. carlson
2020-04-07  3:15       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2020-04-08 18:22     ` Pratyush Yadav
2020-04-10 18:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-06 18:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] gitfaq: append the 'Common Issues' section Shourya Shukla
2020-04-06 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano

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