From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 04:27:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <537AD699.8070503@bbn.com> Richard Hansen writes: > On 2014-05-19 19:46, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> "Jason St. John" writes: >>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series >>> UI, Workflows & Features >>> >>> * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated >>> - to a more recent version from the upstream. >>> + to a more recent version from upstream. >> >> Hmph, I have only one multi-mail upstream; shouldn't I call it "the" >> upstream from my point of view? > > Plain "upstream" (without "the") is correct because it's an adverb, not > a noun. (Alternatively, this could be written "from the upstream > repository" or "from the upstream project".) OK; I was trying to use "upstream" as a noun. > >>> @@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ notes for details). >>> * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop. >>> (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint). >>> >>> - * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch >>> + * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch >>> refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to >> >> Hmph, I read this as a "right-hand", a multi-word adjective, is used >> to describe one "side" (the other side being the "left-hand side"). >> Otherwise, you would be writing command-line-option, no? > > Are you reading the diff backwards? (The second hyphen is being > removed, not added.) Yes. Thanks.