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Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell command

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2010, 18:24 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +in `$SHELL`, or the default shell if `$SHELL` is not set), so you can
>>> +use usual shell commands like "cd". The command is run from the
>>
>> I think that needs a definite article: ".. use the usual ..".
>
> I don't think so, especially with a plural "commands" after.
> Googlefight agrees with me ("use the usual commands" => 350 results,
> "use usual commands" => 4900), but that's not a proof.

Being grammatically correct doesn't automatically make a sentence good. "Use ususal" is a bit of a tongue-twister, so I'd rewrite that to "use normal" for that purpose alone.

But I'm not a native English speaker, and the natives might disagree with me.
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Message 13 of 15 in “rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell command”
  1. rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell commandMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 5, 2010
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 5, 2010
  4. 1/2 rebase -i: add exec command to launch a shell commandMatthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  5. 2/2 test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [!] [-d|-f]Matthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  6. test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [!] [-d|-f]Matthieu Moy, Aug 5, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederAug 6, 2010
  8. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 7, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2010
  10. test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [-d|-f|-e]Matthieu Moy, Aug 10, 2010
  11. Joshua JuranAug 10, 2010
  12. test-lib: user-friendly alternatives to test [-d|-f|-e]Matthieu Moy, Aug 10, 2010
  13. Erik Faye-LundAug 5, 2010
  14. Jacob HelwigAug 5, 2010
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010

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