# [PATCH] doc: fix typo in user manual

2 messages from 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-02. Participants: Khan Zimov, Patrick Steinhardt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/66436

## Khan Zimov, 2026-10-01 18:14

Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix typo in user manual
Message-ID: <20261001181412.846-1-kaliugov@gmail.com>

```
The sentence following the git tag command continues the
preceding sentence, so "You" should be lowercase.

Signed-off-by: Khan Zimov <kaliugov@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
index 5ec65cebe2..1652ab3e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ running
 $ git tag stable-1 1b2e1d63ff
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-You can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
+you can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
 
 This creates a "lightweight" tag.  If you would also like to include a
 comment with the tag, and possibly sign it cryptographically, then you
-- 
2.52.0.windows.1


```

## Patrick Steinhardt, 2026-10-02 11:25

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typo in user manual
Message-ID: <ar-Uk3BJyKTdQB4N@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <20261001181412.846-1-kaliugov@gmail.com>

```
On Thu, Oct 01, 2026 at 10:14:12PM +0400, Khan Zimov wrote:
> The sentence following the git tag command continues the
> preceding sentence, so "You" should be lowercase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Khan Zimov <kaliugov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/user-manual.adoc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> index 5ec65cebe2..1652ab3e86 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ running
>  $ git tag stable-1 1b2e1d63ff
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  
> -You can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
> +you can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
>  
>  This creates a "lightweight" tag.  If you would also like to include a
>  comment with the tag, and possibly sign it cryptographically, then you

This looks a bit funny as a standalone diff, but as you point out in the
commit message this is indeed a continuation of a sentence. So yes, the
fix does make sense.

Thanks!

Patrick

```
