Re: [PATCH] Documentation: git-format-patch.txt rewordings and cleanups

Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] writes:

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How about a sentence with no negation?

"Note that the leading dot is required if you want a dot between the
patch name and the suffix."

How about a sentence that does not sound requirement but freedom?

"The leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you
can use --suffix=-patch to get 0001-description-of-my-change-patch".

Looks even better. Do we still want to start off by saying "Note that the..." ?

Perhaps; I wasn't paying much attention to the whole sentence, but was
primarily interested about giving the description less negative
connotation.