From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:56:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] CodingGuidelines: recommend singular they Message-ID: In-Reply-To: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" writes: > To futher justify singular "they" as an acceptable grammatical concept, > I include the careful research of brian m. carlson who collected their > thoughts on this matter [2] (lightly edited): The use of "their" here I found going overboard, given that (1) it is outside the topic of this change, where you are not referring to a non-specific person, and (2) as Brian's siglines indicate, the preferred pronouns for the particular person you are referring to is "he/him or they/them". > + When referring to an anonymous user, use singular "they/them" pronouns > + as opposed to choosing between "he/him" and "she/her". Do not use more > + complicated constructs such as "he or she" or "s/he". This recommendation > + also applies to code comments and commit messages. Short and sweet.