From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:55:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups
Message-ID: <7vskl2tr00.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <780e0a6b0903241636j4749daf3xddb6e4c200c00820@mail.gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:

> How about a sentence with no negation?
>
> "Note that the leading dot is required if you want a dot between the
> patch name and the suffix."

How about a sentence that does not sound requirement but freedom?

"The leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you
can use --suffix=-patch to get 0001-description-of-my-change-patch".