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Re: trivial: remove the dots at the end of file names

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 6, 2006, 22:37 UTC
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
> Subject: [PATCH] Remove the dots at the end of file names
> to make the output more mouse copy-paste friendly.
> -		echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4."
> +		echo "ERROR: Merge conflict in $4"

Hmph. I think there are places we state pathname within 'single quotes' as a part of sentence, which may have the same issue. I understand and am sympathetic to the motivation, but at the same time messages that do not end with full-stop somehow make me feel quite uneasy. I'll swallow the patch; maybe it is just me.

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