Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix typos in comments

From: Ondřej Bílka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Date: Jul 20, 2013, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20130720203037.GA3753@domone>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kzsVLGXZsxWO5rYahb39LSTFvGuE3hZaCgrJ=nuaoo7w@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:21:10AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> > diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
> > index 7fe0bff..9f29bb2 100644
> > --- a/builtin/checkout.c
> > +++ b/builtin/checkout.c
> > @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >          *  3) git checkout <something> [<paths>]
> >          *
> >          * including "last branch" syntax and DWIM-ery for names of
> > -        * remote branches, erroring out for invalid or ambiguous cases.
> > +        * remote branches, erring out for invalid or ambiguous cases.
> 
> Didn't look through the entire patch, but this caught me eye: what's
> wrong with "erroring out"?

Well aspell did not know it so I thought that erring is more appropriate. Now it looks more murky, see http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3059/is-errored-correct-usage

I am ok with removing this correction.

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