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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rev-list-options.txt: typo fix
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:07:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D77273F.8040105@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vei6he68j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 08.03.2011 20:56:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
>> index 95d209c..76add13 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
>> @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ limiting may be applied.
>>  -n 'number'::
>>  --max-count=<number>::
>>  
>> -	Limit the number of commits output.
>> +	Limit the number of commits to output.
>>  
>>  --skip=<number>::
> 
> IIRC, the original was written using "output" as past particle of verb
> "output" (as "output" in "the commits are output"), so strictly speaking I
> don't think it is a typo.

When I switch on my "latin mode" I can recognize the participle in that
position, but only then ;)

> 
> But I like the new text better, so will apply ;-).
> 

With s/typo/grammo/ ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 19:17 --max-count useless with git-rev-list's --reverse Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-03-07 19:40 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-03-08  7:35   ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-08  8:34     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  8:30 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  8:31   ` [PATCH 1/3] rev-list-options.txt: typo fix Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  8:31     ` [PATCH 2/3] git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: -n/--max-count is commit limiting Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 19:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-09  7:11         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08  8:31     ` [PATCH 3/3] git-log.txt,rev-list-options.txt: put option blocks in proper order Michael J Gruber
2011-03-09 23:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-10  7:50         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-08 19:56     ` [PATCH 1/3] rev-list-options.txt: typo fix Junio C Hamano
2011-03-09  7:07       ` Michael J Gruber [this message]

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