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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Criste <cris_linu_w@yahoo.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix form -> from typo
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:07:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqv9wte8ev.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0heSraZh+j04qjeaVtS5bsNoE=Hf_FBU-kfcB+69BkZz+zHg@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:41:00 +0200")

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Catalin
>
> Welcome to the list!
>
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 09:43, Catalin Criste <cris_linu_w@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q
>>
>>         This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'.  It
>>         differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs,
>> -       and any non-option arguments form the message.
>> +       and any non-option arguments from the message.
>
> I think this is actually intended as "form". It took me a couple of
> readings, but what this paragraph wants to say is that any non-option
> arguments will be used to form (construct) the message.
>
> Do you have any suggestions as to how this could be made clearer?
> There are at least two of us that have stumbled on this. :-)

"become"?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-25  6:36 [PATCH] doc: fix form -> from typo Catalin Criste
2019-06-25  9:41 ` Martin Ågren
2019-06-25 11:40   ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-25 17:49     ` Martin Ågren
2019-06-25 20:07   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-06-26  8:22   ` Thomas Gummerer

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