From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:21:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups
Message-ID: <780e0a6b0903242321q252c4b44k3909bd79003ded6b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vskl2tr00.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How about a sentence with no negation?
>>
>> "Note that the leading dot is required if you want a dot between the
>> patch name and the suffix."
>
> How about a sentence that does not sound requirement but freedom?
>
> "The leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you
> can use --suffix=-patch to get 0001-description-of-my-change-patch".

Looks even better. Do we still want to start off by saying "Note that the..." ?