[PATCH] Specify UK English for the documentation source files.

[Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>]

This will hopefully avoid questions over which spelling and grammar should
be used.  Translators are of course free to create localizations for other
English dialects.

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
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Although I'm Canadian I figured en_CA would be a little too parochial.  I
don't have a strong preference for en_UK over en_US though.

On 13-07-30 11:05 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:> 
> I'd rather not to see any change that turns one accepted form into
> another accepted form at all (like "parseable" vs "parsable" in this
> patch).  For that purpose, asking "What is parseable" to Google and
> seeing if there is a hit is good enough ;-)

I think choosing a dialect for git will help mitigate such changes.  But
perhaps it's a bit too draconian.

		M.


 Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 559d5f9..43af82e 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@ Writing Documentation:
  processed into HTML and manpages (e.g. git.html and git.1 in the
  same directory).
 
+ The human lanuage of the documentation source files is UK English (en_UK).
+ Please follow UK English norms for spelling and grammar.
+
  Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation.
  The same general rule as for code applies -- imitate the existing
  conventions.  A few commented examples follow to provide reference
-- 
1.8.3.1