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Re: Improving Readability of the entire Codebase

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
May 1, 2015, 15:35 UTC
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On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Alangi Derick <alangiderick@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>     While reading the source codes of Git, i found something. Some
> sentences and words are not in their correct cases. For example like
> starting a sentence with a lower case whereas it should be in upper
> case. I want to go through the entire code base and correct the cases
> of these letters to improve on readability. I will also use this
> opportunity to learn the source codes and familiarize myself with the
> code base.
> If its a nice idea, someone should please give me the go
> ahead. I will be waiting.

That's usually the wrong approach within the Git community as there are no people who give the go ahead. Just do it and once you have some results these can be discussed on the mailing list.

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>
> Regards
> Alangi Derick Ndimnain
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  1. Alangi DerickMay 1, 2015
  2. Stefan BellerMay 1, 2015
  3. Alangi DerickMay 1, 2015
  4. Matthieu MoyMay 3, 2015
  5. Alangi DerickMay 3, 2015

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