Either of these two options is CORRECT:
“Your branch is up to date …”
“You have an up-to-date branch …”
But “your branch is up-to-date” is INCORRECT. And, because it’s
incorrect, it conveys an odd and unsettling experience to native
English speakers whenever they read it.
If you’re curious, you can find plenty of discussion of this point of
grammar. Here’s just one example:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/180611/do-i-keep-myself-up-to-date-or-up-to-date-on-something.
Regards,
Steve
The code base contains a few instances of "up-to-date" and "up to date".
A tree wide sweep could be made to update user-visible strings in the
code and in the documentation. Fixing source code comments seems like
overkill. Could I count on you to review any changes I'd propose? (With
respect to the English, that is.)On 21 August 2017 at 10:21, STEVEN
WHITE [off-list ref] wrote:
Either of these two options is CORRECT:
“Your branch is up to date …”
“You have an up-to-date branch …”
But “your branch is up-to-date” is INCORRECT. And, because it’s
incorrect, it conveys an odd and unsettling experience to native
English speakers whenever they read it.
If you’re curious, you can find plenty of discussion of this point of
grammar. Here’s just one example:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/180611/do-i-keep-myself-up-to-date-or-up-to-date-on-something.
There is also some previous discussion on this very list:
https://public-inbox.org/git/CALFtnmeRxgetuCVbO8ZmVkCR302vQ2s4hTPoHxAe5NEfmjtXEg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
The code base contains a few instances of "up-to-date" and "up to date".
A tree wide sweep could be made to update user-visible strings in the
code and in the documentation. Fixing source code comments seems like
overkill. Could I count on you to review any patches I'd propose? (With
respect to the English, that is.)
Obviously, if you'd like to attempt a patch, that's fine by me. :)
Martin