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patchdoc: fix typo in user manual

2 messages between Oct 1, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, from Khan Zimov, Patrick Steinhardt.

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Khan ZimovOct 1, 2026, 18:14 UTC on lore

The sentence following the git tag command continues the preceding sentence, so "You" should be lowercase.

Signed-off-by: Khan Zimov <kaliugov@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
index 5ec65cebe2..1652ab3e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ running
 $ git tag stable-1 1b2e1d63ff
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-You can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
+you can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
 
 This creates a "lightweight" tag.  If you would also like to include a
 comment with the tag, and possibly sign it cryptographically, then you
-- 
2.52.0.windows.1
Patrick SteinhardtOct 2, 2026, 11:25 UTC in reply to Khan Zimov on lore

Re: [PATCH] doc: fix typo in user manual

On Thu, Oct 01, 2026 at 10:14:12PM +0400, Khan Zimov wrote:
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> The sentence following the git tag command continues the
> preceding sentence, so "You" should be lowercase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Khan Zimov <kaliugov@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/user-manual.adoc | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> index 5ec65cebe2..1652ab3e86 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
> @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ running
>  $ git tag stable-1 1b2e1d63ff
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  
> -You can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
> +you can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
>  
>  This creates a "lightweight" tag.  If you would also like to include a
>  comment with the tag, and possibly sign it cryptographically, then you

This looks a bit funny as a standalone diff, but as you point out in the commit message this is indeed a continuation of a sentence. So yes, the fix does make sense.

Thanks!
Patrick

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