Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:16
Marc Branchaud [off-list ref] writes:
I personally don't have a lot of time to investigate the nuances of English. However, I desperately hope this list can avoid any linguistic flame wars. In that spirit, I suggest that anyone posting an orthographic patch (i.e. for something that isn't an obvious spelling mistake) could helpfully include a link or two to an explanation of the reasoning for the change. Especially for folks who aren't native English speakers, this could help avoid a lot of back-and-forth. One general source I've found is the English StackExchange: http://english.stackexchange.com/
I'd rather not to see any change that turns one accepted form into another accepted form at all (like "parseable" vs "parsable" in this patch). For that purpose, asking "What is parseable" to Google and seeing if there is a hit is good enough ;-) I'd of course welcome genuine typofixes, like s/filesytem/filesystem/. Thanks.