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Re: [PATCH] Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes.

From
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2013, 15:12 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:
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> Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
>
> ---
>
> This started out as an attempt to make the backward compatibility notes
> more parsable, but then I just kept going...

s/parsable/parseable/ jk :-)

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>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 145 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
> index 6d25165..06bc831 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
> @@ -8,23 +8,22 @@ When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
>  traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
>  to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
...
>
> - * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input
> + * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into the input
>     buffer around as human readble object names.  This was not a huge

So long as you're at it... s/readble/readable/

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> @@ -268,17 +267,17 @@ details).
>   * "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
>     --diff-algorithm=algo".
>
> - * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
> + * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied in a few
>     places.
>
>   * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
> -   any message as its one of the prerequistes.
> +   any message, as it is one of the prerequistes.
s/prerequistes/prerequisites
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  1. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2013
  2. shawn wilsonApr 27, 2013
  3. Michael HaggertyApr 27, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2013
  5. John KeepingApr 27, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2013
  7. Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes.Marc Branchaud, Apr 29, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2013
  10. Marc BranchaudApr 30, 2013
  11. Lukas FleischerMay 1, 2013
  12. Marc BranchaudMay 1, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2013
  15. Eric SunshineApr 30, 2013
  16. Phil HordApr 30, 2013

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