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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Aleksey Svistunov <aleksey.svistunov@dev.zodiac.tv>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Typo in a Windows installer item description.
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 20:26:15 +0100 (STD)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1901092025310.41@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imyy6t9o.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

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Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jan 09 2019, Aleksey Svistunov wrote:
> 
> > Hi there.
> >
> > I could be wrong but there is a typo on one of the installation step's
> > text. A word sport instead of support is used.
> >
> > Here is a screenshot in attachments which shows where exactly the typo is.
> 
> It's not a typo, "sport" can be used as a verb meaning to display or
> have a notable feature, e.g.[1]:
> 
>     Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from
>     the combat
> 
> But maybe that copy should be simplified. I think the GFW bug tracker is
> the right place to raise that as a suggestion[2].
> 
> 1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sport#Verb
> 2. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues

Actually, a PR at https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra (after
following https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Making-an-installer
to implement the change) would be the right thing to do.

Thanks,
Johannes

      reply	other threads:[~2019-01-09 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-09  9:39 Typo in a Windows installer item description Aleksey Svistunov
2019-01-09 10:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-01-09 19:26   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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