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patchCorrect tenses in documentation.

Subject: [PATCH] Correct tenses in documentation.

## tl;dr

2 messages between Jun 9, 2007 and Jun 9, 2007. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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william pursell· Jun 9, 2007, 15:44 UTC · lore
In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb
is inconsistent.  For example, "Add" vs "Creates".  This
patch to the .txt files makes all of the verbs for
the summaries be present tense.  eg, "Creates" becomes
"Create".
---
  Documentation/git-archive.txt |    2 +-
  Documentation/git-clone.txt   |    2 +-
  Documentation/git-prune.txt   |    2 +-
  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Show changes to 3 files +3 −4

Documentation/git-archive.txt, Documentation/git-clone.txt, Documentation/git-prune.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 721e035..4da07c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archive(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
+git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree


  SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 2461c0e..4a5bab5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-clone(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-clone - Clones a repository into a new directory
+git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory


  SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt
index 50ee5bd..0ace233 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-prune(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-prune - Prunes all unreachable objects from the object database
+git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database


  SYNOPSIS
--
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Junio C Hamano· Jun 9, 2007, 17:05 UTC · re: william pursell · lore

Re: [PATCH] Correct tenses in documentation.

william pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com> writes:
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> In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb
> is inconsistent.  For example, "Add" vs "Creates".  This
> patch to the .txt files makes all of the verbs for
> the summaries be present tense.  eg, "Creates" becomes
> "Create".

I find this sensible and matches the convention to use imperative form; I do not think it is "present tense", but in English they look the same.

Thanks.

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