From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:30:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Use 'First Paragraph' instead of 'First Line'. Message-ID: <7vmx0t625z.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <50524E23.2040507@codeweavers.com> Jeremy White writes: >>> I did not substantially alter this. The emphasis of this section >>> is on the broader show-branch output, and belaboring the subject would >>> be distracting and unnecessary imho. >> >> Yeah, but if that is the focus of this part of the documentation, >> wouldn't a patch to update "the first line" with something more >> generic like "title of the commit" be more appropriate? > > See my patch; I went with 'first part'. That, I think, does not > mislead (the goal of my change), but also does not distract from > the main point of the section (detailing the various bits of > git show-branch). For that kind of casual wording, we have used "title" on this list for quite a long time, I think. So I'd rather see a change that just says "title" (if we are making such a change to the documentation, that is). This is not a very strong preference, though.