Re: [PATCH] date.c: phrase a comment gender neutral
ok.
I'll stop sending such gender related nits.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> When looking for suitable functions to print dates,
>> I found this gem. Let's make it gender neutral as
>> nowadays people get upset by this gender debate.
>
> For some time I used to use "she/her" on Mondays, Wednesdays and
> Fridays and "he/his" on other days to balance them, and you are
> seeing the artifact of that.
>
> Some people might feel that we would be better off using "they" all
> the time, but IMO it's such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the
> tree, it's not really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.
>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
>> ---
>> date.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/date.c b/date.c
>> index 59dfe57..19fb439 100644
>> --- a/date.c
>> +++ b/date.c
>> @@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ int parse_expiry_date(const char *date, unsigned long *timestamp)
>> /*
>> * We take over "now" here, which usually translates
>> * to the current timestamp. This is because the user
>> - * really means to expire everything she has done in
>> + * really means to expire everything they have done in
>> * the past, and by definition reflogs are the record
>> * of the past, and there is nothing from the future
>> * to be kept.
>
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>