# [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar 5 messages from 2010-03-31 to 2010-04-02. Participants: Yawar Amin, Ramkumar Ramachandra. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23266 ## Yawar Amin, 2010-03-31 02:28 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar Message-ID: <4BB2B34B.1080508@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BB2B34B.1080508%40gmail.com ``` 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 --- Please Cc replies to me, thanks. Documentation/urls.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 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, 2010-03-31 05:16 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/p2kf3271551003302216qc6e378a8u2f85751c9c8a24d5%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4BB2B34B.1080508@gmail.com> ``` Hi, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin 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, 2010-03-31 12:11 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar Message-ID: <4BB33BDC.5000406@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BB33BDC.5000406%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 3/31/10 1:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin 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, 2010-03-31 12:38 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/q2jf3271551003310538z643e637g5bb7bc6691f46055%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4BB33BDC.5000406@gmail.com> ``` > 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, 2010-04-02 01:23 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar Message-ID: <4BB5471B.60606@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4BB5471B.60606%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 3/31/10 8:38 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said: >> 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 ```