Re: [PATCH] Document patch syntax.

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Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>

Date

May 12, 2007, 13:56 UTC

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<20070512135644.GA28039@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

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On 2007-05-12 14:07:04 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:

> +Patches in the stack are identified with a short name, which must be
> +unique in the stack.

s/a short name/short names/, maybe.

> +Patches in the current stack are just refered to by their name.  Some
> +commands allow to specify a patch in another stack of the repository;

> +this is done by suffixing the patch name with a '@' sign followed by the
> +branch name (eg. 'thispatch@otherbranch').

s/a '@'/an '@'/; "'@'" begins with a vowel sound. :-)

> +A number of position in the stack related to the patch are also

s/position/positions/.

> +accessible through '//' suffixes.  For example, 'patch//top'' is
> +equivalent to 'patch', and 'patch//bottom' refers to the commit below
> +'patch' (ie. the patch below, or the stack base if this is the

s/ie./i.e./.

> +bottom-most patch).  Similarly ''//top.old'' and ''//bottom.old''

> +refer to the previous version of the patch (before the last
> +stglink:push[] or stglink:refresh[] operation).  When refering to the

s/refering/referring/.

Otherwise,

Acked-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>

Yes, I'm too picky.

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