[PATCH] Documentation: clarify grammar

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that
`former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the
alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git
protocol.

Signed-off-by: Yawar Amin <redacted>
---
 Please Cc replies to me, thanks.

 Documentation/urls.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 459a394..29ded16 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ to name the remote repository:
 SSH is the default transport protocol over the network.  You can
 optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate,
 scp-like syntax is also supported.  Both syntaxes support
-username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but
+username expansion (as does the native git protocol) but
 only the former supports port specification. The following
 three are identical to the last three above, respectively:
 

-- 
1.7.0.2

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin [off-list ref] wrote:

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that
`former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the
alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git
protocol.

I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the
urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.

-- Ram

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143499

On 3/31/10 1:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said:

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin [off-list ref] wrote:
  

quoted

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that
`former' and `latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the
alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git
protocol.
    

I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the
urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.
  

I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I
could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Thanks,

Yawar

I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I
could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation
patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.

-- Ram

On 3/31/10 8:38 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra said:

quoted

I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I
could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.
    

Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation
patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.
  

I'll wait a few days and resubmit. :-)

Thanks,

Yawar