From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:09:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: use singular they when appropriate Message-ID: <87eedd4n20.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Jun 07 2021, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Derrick Stolee > > There are several instances in our documentation where we refer to an > anonymous user as "a contributor" or "an integrator" or similar. To > avoid repeating this role, pronouns are used. Previous examples > chose a gender for this user, using "he/him" or "she/her" arbitrarily. > > Replace these uses with "they/them" to ensure that these documentation > examples apply to all potential users without exception. > > Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee I think this is mostly an improvement, however: > .../using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt | 38 +++++++++---------- This is a quote from a mail of Junio's[1] (date and all). I don't think it makes sense to copyedit that after the fact without at least editing the header that indicates that it's a verbatim reproduction. 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vehuyosaa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org/