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From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Cleanup Documentation
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:57:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1497983273.28187.9.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbJx4p2y6Vjp3dVBP2pd=MYa_j3Mxfv=zUygHY-bHj0wQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:57 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> canonical: "according to recognized rules or scientific laws."
> sounds about right. :)
> 
I actually used as I found it to have the meaning of "conforming to
orthodox or recognized rules" :)


> While this was just reflowed and not newly introduced, I am still
> left wondering what a changeset is in Git terms. Our
> Documentation/glossary says:
> 
>   [[def_changeset]]changeset::
>   BitKeeper/cvsps speak for "<<def_commit,commit>>". Since Git does
> not store changes, but states, it really does not make sense to use
> the term "changesets" with Git.
> 
> Maybe we should say instead:
> 
>     If <path>exists and is already a valid Git repository,
>     then this is staged for commit without cloning.
> 
Does seem to be a good change to make. Done.

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 10:05 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > With or without this nit addressed, this patch looks good to me,
> > > 
> > 
> > Well actually not quite. The subject (and commit message) is very
> > vague,
> > maybe:
> 
> >     Documentation/git-submodule: cleanup "add" section
> > 
> >     The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its
> > description and
> >     the short synopsis line. Remove the redundant mentioning of the
> >     'repository' argument being mandatory.
> > 
> >     The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove
> > those.
> > 
> >     Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys
> better
> > what
> >     we do to guess the path.
> > 
> >     While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is
> an
> > important
> >     file in the submodule context, also link to it on its first
> > mention.
> >     (This paragraph is not exactly what happens in the commit, but
> I
> > wrote it
> >     as a way how I would write commit messages. It shows the reader
> > how
> >     you addressed the given problem, with the quantifiers "all"
> "the
> > first" showing
> >     what you think is important, and that you deliberately omitted
> > others)
> 
Made this change too.


-- 
Regards,
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-20 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-19  3:05 [PATCH/RFC] Cleanup Documentation Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-19  5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-19  5:50   ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-19 17:33     ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-19 17:54       ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-20  3:12         ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-20 16:57           ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-20 17:05             ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-21  3:02               ` [PATCH/FINALRFC] Documentation/git-submodule: cleanup Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-21 16:11                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-21 17:41                   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-22  2:51                     ` [PATCH/FINAL] " Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-06-22 19:07                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-22 19:13                         ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-20 18:27             ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]

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