Thread (4 messages) flat view 4 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation spelling fixes.

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:09

Hi Ville,

Ville Skyttä wrote:
---
If this does not end up needing a re-roll, would it be okay for
Junio (or whoever else picks up the patch) to forge your sign-off?
(See "Sign your work" in Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what I
mean.)
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+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
 	Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
-	that multiple deltafied objects reference.  By storing the
+	that multiple deltified objects reference.  By storing the
Huh?  Maybe

	Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching based objects
	that might be referenced by multiple deltified objects.

Or:

	Amount of memory (in bytes) to reserve for speeding up
	unpacking of deltified objects.  By storing entire
	decompressed base objects in a cache, Git can avoid
	unpacking and decompressing frequently-used base objects
	multiple times.
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@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ instaweb.local::
 	be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
 
 instaweb.modulepath::
-	The module path for an apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
+	The module path for an Apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
Maybe:

	Default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
	instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules.  Only used if httpd
	is Apache.
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+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ CRLF Line Ending Conversions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
-which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject
+which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject
Should we call the cvs(1) command "the CVS client"?  Maybe
"the cvs(1) client" or something would be clearer, but I
don't see anything wrong with your choice.
-to crlf conversion on some platforms.
+to CRLF conversion on some platforms.
This term can be confusing, as we've seen in other contexts.
Maybe:

	subject to line-ending conversion on some platforms.
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+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --no-filters::
 	Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would
-	have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including crlf
+	have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including CRLF
 	conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
It's called "end-of-line conversion" in gitattributes(5) now,
apparently.

The rest of this one looks good.  Thanks.
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