{"thread":{"id":"13838","subject":"General question about minimal documentation patches","startedAt":"2008-06-06T22:23:36Z","lastAt":"2008-06-06T22:47:44Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Dirk Süsserott","Robert Anderson","Stephan Beyer","Miklos Vajna"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"78965","messageId":"4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc","threadId":"13838","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"General question about minimal documentation patches","fromName":"Dirk Süsserott","fromEmail":"newsletter@dirk.my1.cc","sentAt":"2008-06-06T22:23:36Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-06T22:23:36Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"newsletter@dirk.my1.cc","avatar":null},"body":"This is a general question about documentation patches:\n\nDo you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the\ndocs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,\nam a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover\nsuch errors I prefer to have them fixed.\n\nOTOH, I really don't want to bother you with such patches\nthat don't bring forward the \"real Git\" and only marginally\ncontribute to Git itself. I know that all of you have better\nthings to do than adding a punctuation mark somewhere\nor checking a patch that does it.\n\n    -- Dirk\n"},{"id":"78967","messageId":"9af502e50806061539j3962e63oe1124bbe4d76716@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"13838","inReplyTo":"4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc","subject":"Re: General question about minimal documentation patches","fromName":"Robert Anderson","fromEmail":"rwa000@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-06-06T22:39:14Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-06T22:39:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rwa000@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:\n> OTOH, I really don't want to bother you with such patches\n> that don't bring forward the \"real Git\" and only marginally\n> contribute to Git itself.\n\nAs a new-ish user of git who spends a lot of time in the docs:  please\ndo it.  These problems range from distracting to downright confusing.\n\nBob\n"},{"id":"78968","messageId":"20080606224604.GE31040@leksak.fem-net","threadId":"13838","inReplyTo":"4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc","subject":"Re: General question about minimal documentation patches","fromName":"Stephan Beyer","fromEmail":"s-beyer@gmx.net","sentAt":"2008-06-06T22:46:04Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-06T22:46:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"s-beyer@gmx.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/143889?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\n> Do you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the\n> docs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,\n> am a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover\n> such errors I prefer to have them fixed.\n\nI don't see a reason why tiny documentation fixes (be it typos or not)\nshould be less important than tiny feature code fixes,\nso imho it is totally ok ;-)\n\nOut of curiosity I looked for typo-only fixes in git, and found:\n88f6dbaf99f43053f86474b28beedd91e77c64d9\n\tbuiltin-apply: typofix\ne77b0b5d0fdac411607dbae11ccad87dccd332d3\n\tgit-am: fix typo in usage message\ned020917147ca733477a0186f3bb1791ec6e5b5c\n\tDocumentation/git-web--browse.txt: fix small typo\n51836e9e125f67aa26724154757b4734c08057e4\n\tDocumentation/git-submodule: typofix\nca593f795994badf7cd543d24d1ed24aabc0d8e1\n\tDocumentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo (\"send\" -> \"end\")\nand so on ;-)\n\nWhat I want to say: just send the patches in ;-)\n\nRegards,\n  Stephan\n\n-- \nStephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F\n"},{"id":"78970","messageId":"20080606224744.GX29404@genesis.frugalware.org","threadId":"13838","inReplyTo":"4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc","subject":"Re: General question about minimal documentation patches","fromName":"Miklos Vajna","fromEmail":"vmiklos@frugalware.org","sentAt":"2008-06-06T22:47:44Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-06T22:47:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"vmiklos@frugalware.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/401c1cbbb3a5d13e650c691a2c71d6fd0b80df1a01bc74d9f1972675dd58f2bd?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:23:36AM +0200, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:\n> Do you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the\n> docs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,\n> am a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover\n> such errors I prefer to have them fixed.\n\nSure, just do it. I think the first patch of most of us was such a small\ndocumentation typo fix: see 31cedfb. ;-)\n"}]}