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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement error
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:29:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeflvql6m.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180208101358.af4ecca9865dca4f04431bce@google.com> (Jonathan Tan's message of "Thu, 8 Feb 2018 10:13:58 -0800")

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:

> On Thu,  8 Feb 2018 02:56:14 +0000
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
>>  Existing trailers are extracted from the input message by looking for
>> -a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contains at
>> -least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at
>> +a group of one or more lines that (i) are all trailers, or (ii) contain at
>> +least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consist of at
>>  least 25% trailers.
>>  The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines.
>>  The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last
>
> Ah, good catch. Maybe "a group of one or more lines that (i) consists of all
> trailers, or (ii) contains ..."?

Your version reads better perhaps because it talks about "a group"
without placing undue stress on the fact that the member of the
group are usually multiple---I guess it is better over Brian's?




  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-08 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-08  2:56 [PATCH] docs/interpret-trailers: fix agreement error brian m. carlson
2018-02-08 18:13 ` Jonathan Tan
2018-02-08 20:29   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-02-10 16:57     ` brian m. carlson
2018-02-13  2:23 ` [PATCH v2] " brian m. carlson
2018-02-13 18:41   ` Jonathan Tan

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