# General question about minimal documentation patches

4 messages from 2008-06-06 to 2008-06-06. Participants: Dirk Süsserott, Robert Anderson, Stephan Beyer, Miklos Vajna.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13838

## Dirk Süsserott, 2008-06-06 22:23

Subject: General question about minimal documentation patches
Message-ID: <4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4849B8E8.1090506%40dirk.my1.cc

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This is a general question about documentation patches:

Do you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the
docs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,
am a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover
such errors I prefer to have them fixed.

OTOH, I really don't want to bother you with such patches
that don't bring forward the "real Git" and only marginally
contribute to Git itself. I know that all of you have better
things to do than adding a punctuation mark somewhere
or checking a patch that does it.

    -- Dirk

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## Robert Anderson, 2008-06-06 22:39

Subject: Re: General question about minimal documentation patches
Message-ID: <9af502e50806061539j3962e63oe1124bbe4d76716@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9af502e50806061539j3962e63oe1124bbe4d76716%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc>

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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:
> OTOH, I really don't want to bother you with such patches
> that don't bring forward the "real Git" and only marginally
> contribute to Git itself.

As a new-ish user of git who spends a lot of time in the docs:  please
do it.  These problems range from distracting to downright confusing.

Bob

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## Stephan Beyer, 2008-06-06 22:46

Subject: Re: General question about minimal documentation patches
Message-ID: <20080606224604.GE31040@leksak.fem-net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080606224604.GE31040%40leksak.fem-net
In-Reply-To: <4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc>

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Hi,

> Do you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the
> docs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,
> am a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover
> such errors I prefer to have them fixed.

I don't see a reason why tiny documentation fixes (be it typos or not)
should be less important than tiny feature code fixes,
so imho it is totally ok ;-)

Out of curiosity I looked for typo-only fixes in git, and found:
88f6dbaf99f43053f86474b28beedd91e77c64d9
	builtin-apply: typofix
e77b0b5d0fdac411607dbae11ccad87dccd332d3
	git-am: fix typo in usage message
ed020917147ca733477a0186f3bb1791ec6e5b5c
	Documentation/git-web--browse.txt: fix small typo
51836e9e125f67aa26724154757b4734c08057e4
	Documentation/git-submodule: typofix
ca593f795994badf7cd543d24d1ed24aabc0d8e1
	Documentation/git-request-pull: Fixed a typo ("send" -> "end")
and so on ;-)

What I want to say: just send the patches in ;-)

Regards,
  Stephan

-- 
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F

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## Miklos Vajna, 2008-06-06 22:47

Subject: Re: General question about minimal documentation patches
Message-ID: <20080606224744.GX29404@genesis.frugalware.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080606224744.GX29404%40genesis.frugalware.org
In-Reply-To: <4849B8E8.1090506@dirk.my1.cc>

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On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:23:36AM +0200, Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> wrote:
> Do you mind if people submit _very_ minimal patches for the
> docs that fix only some typing errors or the like? I, personally,
> am a friend of correct spelling and such and when I discover
> such errors I prefer to have them fixed.

Sure, just do it. I think the first patch of most of us was such a small
documentation typo fix: see 31cedfb. ;-)

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