Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation and Code: Fix misspellings and grammar

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 22, 2012, 22:55 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd34rlzxk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1340404814-29790-1-git-send-email-muhtasib@gmail.com>

Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Leila Muhtasib <muhtasib@gmail.com>
> ---
> Let me know if you'd like me to break this up into separate patches.
> I ran 'git grep occured' to make sure I got all of them.

I am tempted to suggest "one word per patch" ;-)

Also you might want to take a look at

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/199033

> Do you think it's a problem to fix misspellings in printf output?

It depends, but in a sense, typos in comments are a lot lower priority (nobody is hurt if we do not fix them, and if such a fix interferes with topics in flight, it is more nuisance than it is worth and it would be greatly appreciated if you hold off typofixes until the dust settles).

Program output affects the end user experience, so it is more important.

Changes to strings marked with _() for l10n should come early in the development cycle so that translators have enough time to prepare for it before the release.