From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Switch receive.denyCurrentBranch to "refuse"
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:22:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4ozbdgea.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090203080734.GA27251@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2009 03:07:34 -0500")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:01:43AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> "To allow pushing into the current branch, you can set it to 'ignore';",
>> - "but this is not recommended unless you really know what you are doing.",
>> + "but this is not recommended unless you arranged its work tree to get",
>> + "updated to match what you pushed in some other way.",
>
> This is much better, but I believe it needs to be "...arranged _for_
> its work tree to get updated..." to be grammatically correct.
>
> And as a nit (which I seem to be full of tonight), you can get rid of
> the passive voice by saying:
>
> but this is not recommended unless you arranged to update its work
> tree to match what you pushed in some other way.
>
> which is slightly more clear, IMHO.
Much more clear. I overuse the passive voice, I know it is a bad habit I
somehow cannot shake off.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cover.1233275583u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2009-01-30 0:34 ` [PATCH] Switch receive.denyCurrentBranch to "refuse" Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 1:28 ` Jay Soffian
2009-01-30 1:32 ` Asheesh Laroia
2010-04-13 16:42 ` [PATCH] Switch receive.denyCurrentBranch to "refuse" Dave Abrahams
2010-04-13 17:57 ` [PATCH] Switch receive.denyCurrentBranch to "refuse" Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7v4ozhd1wp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2009-01-30 2:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-30 13:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 16:33 ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 16:55 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 2:30 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-01-30 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-11 0:11 ` Miklos Vajna
2009-02-11 1:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-01-30 2:55 ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 14:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 7:17 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-01-30 7:34 ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 13:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 14:35 ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 16:17 ` Jay Soffian
2009-01-30 16:28 ` Jeff King
2009-01-30 17:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-30 18:50 ` Jay Soffian
2009-01-30 19:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-31 0:56 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-02-01 1:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-01 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02 12:41 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 4:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-06 14:06 ` Jeff King
2009-02-07 7:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 8:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 8:07 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 9:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-01 2:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-01 3:37 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-01 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02 7:00 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-02 8:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02 10:50 ` Sam Vilain
2009-02-01 22:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-01 23:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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