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patchDocumentation: clarify grammar

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

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Yawar Amin· Mar 31, 2010, 02:28 UTC · lore

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that `former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git protocol.

Signed-off-by: Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>
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 Please Cc replies to me, thanks.

 Documentation/urls.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 459a394..29ded16 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ to name the remote repository:
 SSH is the default transport protocol over the network.  You can
 optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate,
 scp-like syntax is also supported.  Both syntaxes support
-username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but
+username expansion (as does the native git protocol) but
 only the former supports port specification. The following
 three are identical to the last three above, respectively:

-- 
1.7.0.2

Ramkumar Ramachandra· Mar 31, 2010, 05:16 UTC · re: Yawar Amin · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that
> `former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the
> alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git
> protocol.

I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.

-- Ram

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143499

Yawar Amin· Mar 31, 2010, 12:11 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

On 3/31/10 1:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said:

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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that
>> `former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the
>> alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git
>> protocol.
>>     
>
> I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the
> urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.
>

I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Thanks,

Yawar

Ramkumar Ramachandra· Mar 31, 2010, 12:38 UTC · re: Yawar Amin · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

> I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I
> could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.

-- Ram

Yawar Amin· Apr 2, 2010, 01:23 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

On 3/31/10 8:38 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said:

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>> I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I
>> could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.
>>     
>
> Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation
> patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.
>

I'll wait a few days and resubmit. :-)

Thanks,

Yawar