Re: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: Cite the 50 char subject limit

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2010, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimu35sWvQhCVDEQvT5Qswbgqxcnji_D0uR=heVm@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7861092D-582B-4918-AF3D-BF595B195673@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 19:49, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 17:23, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmph, we probably would want to do s/50 character/&s/ in the two manual
>>> pages.
>>
>> I'm not sure if "with a single short (less than 50 character) line" is
>> is grammatically correct with "characters", since "characters line"
>> wouldn't make sense.
>>
>> On the other hand that sentence violates the rule that when you put
>> something in parens your sentence should still make sense with
>> s/[()]//g, "a single short less than 50 character line" is pushing it.
>
> If the number of characters is less than 50, then there are fewer than 50
> characters.
>
> This is a short line of fewer than 50 characters.

I don't understand the context of that remark or what you're replying to.

I meant that I found the "single short (less than 50 character) line" bit in git-commit.txt, gittutorial.txt and user-manual.txt odd to read.

What did you mean?