Re: [PATCH 1/1] Random documentation spelling fixes

From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 22, 2010, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20100122083614.GE7370@headley>
In-Reply-To: <1264126491-8273-2-git-send-email-vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>

Cool!

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:14:51PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:

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>  
>   * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
> index e143d8d..0614225 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.6.txt
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Updates since v1.5.5
>  * Many freestanding documentation pages have been converted and made
>    available to "git help" (aka "man git<something>") as section 7 of
>    the manual pages. This means bookmarks to some HTML documentation
> -  files may need to be updated (eg "tutorial.html" became
> +  files may need to be updated (eg, "tutorial.html" became
>    "gittutorial.html").

What about "e.g.", when you're at it? (And I don't think the comma is necessary -- and you didn't add it in the very first hunk of the patch anyway).

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
> index 6b7b2e5..eb35f2f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
> @@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ So git bisect is unconditional goodness - and feel free to quote that
>  ;-)
>  _____________
>  
> -Acknowledgements
> +Acknowledgments
>  ----------------

Both are correct, AFAIK.

Regards,

    Štěpán