From: Joshua Juran Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:49:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit Message-ID: <7861092D-582B-4918-AF3D-BF595B195673@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 17:23, Junio C Hamano > wrote: > >> Hmph, we probably would want to do s/50 character/&s/ in the two >> manual >> pages. > > I'm not sure if "with a single short (less than 50 character) line" is > is grammatically correct with "characters", since "characters line" > wouldn't make sense. > > On the other hand that sentence violates the rule that when you put > something in parens your sentence should still make sense with > s/[()]//g, "a single short less than 50 character line" is pushing it. If the number of characters is less than 50, then there are fewer than 50 characters. This is a short line of fewer than 50 characters. Cheers, Josh