Re: [PATCH] RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles
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- Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
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- May 20, 2014, 04:14 UTC
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On 2014-05-19 19:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Jason St. John" <jstjohn@purdue.edu> writes: >> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series >> UI, Workflows & Features >> >> * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated >> - to a more recent version from the upstream. >> + to a more recent version from upstream. > > Hmph, I have only one multi-mail upstream; shouldn't I call it "the" > upstream from my point of view?
Plain "upstream" (without "the") is correct because it's an adverb, not a noun. (Alternatively, this could be written "from the upstream repository" or "from the upstream project".)
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>> @@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ notes for details). >> * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop. >> (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint). >> >> - * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch >> + * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch >> refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to > > Hmph, I read this as a "right-hand", a multi-word adjective, is used > to describe one "side" (the other side being the "left-hand side"). > Otherwise, you would be writing command-line-option, no?
Are you reading the diff backwards? (The second hyphen is being removed, not added.)
-Richard