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From: STEVEN WHITE <stevencharleswhitevoices@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: "Your branch is up-to-date ..." is incorrect English grammar
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:21:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJXxHvVzTrhJk6pFsOzUKBuU2VcW41-tMk5A7s+rxXsacXpppw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Either of these two options is CORRECT:

“Your branch is up to date …”

“You have an up-to-date branch …”



But “your branch is up-to-date” is INCORRECT. And, because it’s
incorrect, it conveys an odd and unsettling experience to native
English speakers whenever they read it.



If you’re curious, you can find plenty of discussion of this point of
grammar. Here’s just one example:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/180611/do-i-keep-myself-up-to-date-or-up-to-date-on-something.



Regards,

Steve

             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-21  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-21  8:21 STEVEN WHITE [this message]
2017-08-21  9:37 ` "Your branch is up-to-date ..." is incorrect English grammar Martin Ågren
2017-08-21 22:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23  3:55     ` STEVEN WHITE
2017-08-23 17:49       ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/user-manual: update outdated example output Martin Ågren
2017-08-23 19:02         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-23 17:49       ` [PATCH 2/2] treewide: correct several "up-to-date" to "up to date" Martin Ågren
2017-08-24  3:51         ` STEVEN WHITE
2017-08-24  9:48           ` Martin Ågren

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