Re: [PATCH] git-check-ref-format: fix typo in man page

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2017, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrNb8xdbjFFAVVRDNe4Mho764PKYCbrLWmu4ykzU9A5dA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c27d7861-b161-a3eb-fcfc-bf766fc7b20b@gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Damien Regad <dregad@mantisbt.org> wrote:

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> ---
>  Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
> b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
> index 8611a99..377c85a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  --normalize::
>         Normalize 'refname' by removing any leading slash (`/`)
>         characters and collapsing runs of adjacent slashes between
> -       name components into a single slash.  Iff the normalized
> +       name components into a single slash.  If the normalized

I think this is a good change, but I do know in some contexts, "Iff" is used intentionally to mean "If and only if". It's somewhat unlikely that's what was going on here, and I don't think we need to be that pedantic in our help documentation anyway.

Thanks, Jake

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>         refname is valid then print it to standard output and exit
>         with a status of 0.  (`--print` is a deprecated way to spell
>         `--normalize`.)
> --
> 2.7.4
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