From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:00:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update-index doc: v4 is OK with JGit and libgit2
Message-ID: <ZN+/vJysYcri/iBz@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqil9cusfn.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 11:16:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>+time. The first version to support it was Git 1.8.0 released in
>+October 2012,

"Git supports it since version 1.8.0[, which was] released in October 
2012, and ..." would be probably easier to read.

>and support for it was added to libgit2 in 2016 and

+to

>+JGit in 2020,

>respectively.
>
this use of "respectively" is bogus; just leave it off. it would make 
sense if you wrote "was added to libgit2 and jgit in 2016 and 2020, 
respectively", but this would just complicate matters.

regards