From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Grammar correction, wording fixes and cleanup
Message-ID: <7vliujre93.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1314134106.5186.64.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu> writes:

> 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.