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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanup

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2011, 21:48 UTC
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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:
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> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 20:48 -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
>
>> +. You could be using the `objects/info/alternates` or
>> +`$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanisms to 'borrow'
>>  objects from other object stores.  A repository with this kind
>>  of incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for
>> -use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
>> -`objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
>> -it borrows from.
>> +use with dumb transports but is otherwise OK as long as
>> +`objects/info/alternates` points to object stores containing the
>> +missing objects.
>
> Umm, I'm not prepared to call this an improvement. The objects aren't
> _missing_, they just aren't present in the most immediate object store.
> I'm a minimalist when it comes to this sort of edit and would have just
> excised the word "right" from the awkward segment.

Yeah, "points at the object stores it borrows objects from" sounds readable and technically correct.

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Message 6 of 9 in “Grammar and wording fixes in gitrepository-layout”
  1. Grammar and wording fixes in gitrepository-layoutBen Walton, Aug 20, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2011
  3. Ben WaltonAug 23, 2011
  4. Documentation: Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanupBen Walton, Aug 23, 2011
  5. Drew NorthupAug 23, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2011
  7. Documentation: Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanupBen Walton, Aug 24, 2011
  8. Drew NorthupAug 24, 2011
  9. Ben WaltonAug 24, 2011

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