From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:18:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: update a NEEDSWORK comment
Message-ID: <xmqqzfcwuzxo.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <1599cd31-436c-4ac7-bbef-be7dfbff00a3@app.fastmail.com>

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2025, at 00:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The comment was poorly phrased and it wasn't clear what it wanted to
>> say.  Strongly discourage this broken pattern to be copied and
>> pasted to other code paths.
>
> Why “was”?  Shouldn’t it be “The comment is poorly phrased ... so
> [change it]”.  According to SubmittingPatches, “present-tense”.

True.  Thanks for spotting.