Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update information about <format> in git-for-each-ref

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

... For me it's the other
way around, so I think of the above as "if it doesn't compare to this
or that, then do this", but the "are equal to" meaning of "compare"
isn't intuitive to me as I spent the first several years of my
english-speaking life using "compare" exclusively as a verb.

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I think I should have said that "I force me to pronounce" and I
am trying to say the same thing as you said.

xxxcmp(a, b) literally is "compare a and b and give me the
result"; the result coming back as "true" when a and b are
different is counter-intuitive and I think it is so to
everybody, not limited to non-English speaking people.  That's
why I force me to ignore the etymology of the "cmp" in the
function name and call that "a and b differs" or "subtract b
from a" depending on the context.

By the way, I think "a compares to b" is also a verb, not just
"i compare a and b and found these differences".

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