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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 30, 2013, 15:05 UTC
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Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> writes:
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> I personally don't have a lot of time to investigate the nuances of English.
> However, I desperately hope this list can avoid any linguistic flame wars.
> In that spirit, I suggest that anyone posting an orthographic patch (i.e. for
> something that isn't an obvious spelling mistake) could helpfully include a
> link or two to an explanation of the reasoning for the change.  Especially
> for folks who aren't native English speakers, this could help avoid a lot of
> back-and-forth.
>
> One general source I've found is the English StackExchange:
> 	http://english.stackexchange.com/

I'd rather not to see any change that turns one accepted form into another accepted form at all (like "parseable" vs "parsable" in this patch). For that purpose, asking "What is parseable" to Google and seeing if there is a hit is good enough ;-)

I'd of course welcome genuine typofixes, like s/filesytem/filesystem/.
Thanks.
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Message 3 of 12 in “Documentation: fix typos in man pages”
  1. Documentation: fix typos in man pagesØystein Walle, Jul 29, 2013
  2. Marc BranchaudJul 30, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2013
  4. Specify UK English for the documentation source files.Marc Branchaud, Jul 30, 2013
  5. Fredrik GustafssonJul 30, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2013
  7. Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.Marc Branchaud, Aug 1, 2013
  8. Marc BranchaudAug 1, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 1, 2013
  10. Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation.Marc Branchaud, Aug 1, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederAug 2, 2013
  12. Marc BranchaudAug 2, 2013

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