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Re: [PATCH] Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive.

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Vineet Kumar <vineet@doorstop.net>
Date
Mar 10, 2008, 15:47 UTC
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<20080310154719.GA11449@doorstop.net>
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* Junio C Hamano (gitster@pobox.com) [080307 16:05]:
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> Vineet Kumar <vineet@doorstop.net> writes:
> 
> > There were some inconsistent mixing of "this hunk" and "that hunk" referring
> > to the same hunk; I switched them all to "this".  There was also a missing
> > "the".
> > ---
> >  Documentation/git-add.txt |    8 ++++----
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
> > index 4779909..bc74fc0 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
> > @@ -207,10 +207,10 @@ patch::
> >    and the working tree file and asks you if you want to stage
> >    the change of each hunk.  You can say:
> >  
> > -       y - add the change from that hunk to index
> > -       n - do not add the change from that hunk to index
> > -       a - add the change from that hunk and all the rest to index
> > -       d - do not the change from that hunk nor any of the rest to index
> > +       y - add the change from this hunk to index
> > +       n - do not add the change from this hunk to index
> > +       a - add the change from this hunk and all the rest to index
> > +       d - do not add the change from this hunk nor any of the rest to index
> >         j - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next
> >             undecided hunk
> >         J - do not decide on this hunk now, and view the next hunk
> 
> Hmm.  Do we perhaps want to match this with the help text in
> "sub help_patch_cmd" of git-add--interactive.perl?

Yeah, personally I like those ones better; I think they're more readable. Any ideas on how to have them use the same source, or should I just duplicate the ones from git-add--interactive.perl into git-add.txt?

Vineet
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  1. Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive.Vineet Kumar, Mar 7, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 7, 2008
  3. Vineet KumarMar 10, 2008
  4. Minor wording changes in the keyboard descriptions in git-add --interactive.Vineet Kumar, Mar 13, 2008

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