From: Jeremy White Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:57:39 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Use 'First Paragraph' instead of 'First Line'. Message-ID: <505248C3.7000803@codeweavers.com> In-Reply-To: <7vehm593v8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Thanks for the feedback; new patch inbound. Minor nits: >> diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt >> index f7815e9..92f97e6 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt >> @@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ $ git show-branch --topo-order --more=1 master mybranch >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> The first two lines indicate that it is showing the two branches >> -and the first line of the commit log message from their >> +and the first paragraph of the commit log message from their >> top-of-the-tree commits, you are currently on `master` branch >> (notice the asterisk `\*` character), and the first column for >> the later output lines is used to show commits contained in the > > Ditto. I did not substantially alter this. The emphasis of this section is on the broader show-branch output, and belaboring the subject would be distracting and unnecessary imho. Cheers, Jeremy