{"thread":{"id":"64373","subject":"[PATCH] docs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc","startedAt":"2025-10-23T12:48:32Z","lastAt":"2025-10-23T17:19:57Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["QueenJcloud","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"529499","messageId":"20251023124801.334-1-qjessa662@gmail.com","threadId":"64373","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] docs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc","fromName":"QueenJcloud","fromEmail":"qjessa662@gmail.com","sentAt":"2025-10-23T12:48:01Z","receivedAt":"2025-10-23T12:48:32Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"qjessa662@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233464585?v=4"},"body":"This commit simplifies the help sentence in the MyFirstContribution\ndocument to make it shorter and clearer for new contributors.\n\nSigned-off-by: QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com>\n---\n Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc | 2 +-\n 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\nindex 91c6296ffe..f0768bd03c 100644\n--- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\n+++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\n@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ useful additional context:\n [[getting-help]]\n === Getting Help\n \n-If you get stuck, you can ask for help on the mailing list or Git community channels listed below.\n+If you get stuck, ask for help in the following places.\n \n ==== git@vger.kernel.org\n \n-- \n2.51.0.573.gb660e2dcb9\n\n"},{"id":"529511","messageId":"xmqqjz0lv8lh.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"64373","inReplyTo":"20251023124801.334-1-qjessa662@gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] docs: simplify help sentence in MyFirstContribution.adoc","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2025-10-23T17:19:54Z","receivedAt":"2025-10-23T17:19:57Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com> writes:\n\n> This commit simplifies the help sentence in the MyFirstContribution\n> document to make it shorter and clearer for new contributors.\n>\n> Signed-off-by: QueenJcloud <qjessa662@gmail.com>\n> ---\n>  Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc | 2 +-\n>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)\n>\n> diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\n> index 91c6296ffe..f0768bd03c 100644\n> --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\n> +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.adoc\n> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ useful additional context:\n>  [[getting-help]]\n>  === Getting Help\n>  \n> -If you get stuck, you can ask for help on the mailing list or Git community channels listed below.\n> +If you get stuck, ask for help in the following places.\n\nI do not quite understand this change.\nWhere are we getting that longer and less clear version?\n\nThe text in our source (both 'maint' and also 'seen') has\n\n    [[getting-help]]\n    === Getting Help\n\n    If you get stuck, you can seek help in the following places.\n\nand the above text has not changed since it was written in 4bb4fd42\n(MyFirstContribution: add avenues for getting help, 2020-01-24).  So\nthere is nothing to \"make it shorter\" there.\n\nIs \"you can ask for help\" materially better than \"you can seek\nhelp\"?  As a non-native speaker, I cannot quite tell.  Both are\nequally understandable to me, so I see nothing to \"make it clearer\"\nthere, either.\n\nPuzzled...\n"}]}