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Re: [PATCH] Fixed pluralization in diff reports

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2011, 05:06 UTC
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Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> writes:
>> This is how the other diff implementation has always showed this line, no?
>
> Maybe, but it's not grammatical English no matter who does it.

It does not matter it is grammatical or not; changing it would break expectation by scripts that are used to the output both by the other implementation and by us.

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