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[PATCH 4/4] doc: omit needless "for"

From
Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2016, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20161209155112.2112-5-kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>
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<20161209155112.2112-1-kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>

What was intended was perhaps "... plumbing does for you" ("you" added), but simply omitting the word "for" is more terse and gets the intended point across just as well, if not more so.

I originally went with the approach of writing "for you", but Junio C Hamano suggested this approach instead.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>
---
Notes (kristoffers):
    The original patch was sent to the mailing list on 2016-11-04, and Junio
    replied with his suggested correction on 2016-11-10; see the cover
    letter.
 Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 72ca9c1ef..22309cfb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ you want to understand Git's internals.
 The core Git is often called "plumbing", with the prettier user
 interfaces on top of it called "porcelain". You may not want to use the
 plumbing directly very often, but it can be good to know what the
-plumbing does for when the porcelain isn't flushing.
+plumbing does when the porcelain isn't flushing.
 
 Back when this document was originally written, many porcelain
 commands were shell scripts. For simplicity, it still uses them as
-- 
2.11.0
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Message 12 of 15 in “doc: fixes to gitcore-tutorial.txt”
  1. 0/4 doc: fixes to gitcore-tutorial.txtKristoffer Haugsbakk, Dec 9, 2016
  2. 1/4 doc: add articles (grammar)Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Dec 9, 2016
  3. Philip OakleyDec 10, 2016
  4. Kristoffer HaugsbakkDec 13, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  6. Kristoffer HaugsbakkDec 13, 2016
  7. 2/4 doc: add verb in front of command to runKristoffer Haugsbakk, Dec 9, 2016
  8. Philip OakleyDec 10, 2016
  9. 3/4 doc: make the intent of sentence clearerKristoffer Haugsbakk, Dec 9, 2016
  10. Philip OakleyDec 10, 2016
  11. Kristoffer HaugsbakkDec 13, 2016
  12. 4/4 doc: omit needless "for"Kristoffer Haugsbakk, Dec 9, 2016
  13. Philip OakleyDec 11, 2016
  14. Philip OakleyDec 11, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2016

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