Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanup

From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Aug 23, 2011, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <1314134106.5186.64.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1314060519-24035-1-git-send-email-bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:48 -0400, Ben Walton wrote:

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> +. You could be using the `objects/info/alternates` or
> +`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanisms to 'borrow'
>  objects from other object stores.  A repository with this kind
>  of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for
> -use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
> -`objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
> -it borrows from.
> +use with dumb transports but is otherwise OK as long as
> +`objects/info/alternates` points to object stores containing the
> +missing objects.

Umm, I'm not prepared to call this an improvement. The objects aren't _missing_, they just aren't present in the most immediate object store. I'm a minimalist when it comes to this sort of edit and would have just excised the word "right" from the awkward segment.

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-Drew Northup
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