Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Use singular "they" when appropriate

Derrick Stolee wrote:

On 6/15/2021 2:02 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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I just retried a "competing" merge that got ugly ;-)

Between Derrick's two "singular they" patches (one for comments, the
other for docs) and Felipe's two patches (the same split), they
touch identical base text.  Only the way they neuter the description
is different, and to me the latter feels a bit more ESL friendly.

So, the main things that are missing from Felipe's version that we
may want to build on top before the whole discussion can be
concluded are:

 - Derrick's "typofix" patch, but if I recall correctly it needed a
   fix-up in one of its hunks?

 - Guidelines; you had a more generic readability tips that would
   (incidentally) result in nudging the writers to be more gender
   neutral, which I think is going in the right direction, but I do
   prefer to see an explicit mention of gender-neutrality as one
   bullet item.

I will send a v3 soon with Felipe's two patches, a fixed typo patch,
and a new set of guidelines.

I don't believe it's necessary to tie the guideline with the fixes. The
guideline might be desirable without the fixes (depending what the
guideline says), and the fixes can be applied without the guideline. In
other words: they are orthogonal.

Tying them together only ensures the fixes are going to be unnecessarily
delayed until we find appropriate guideliens (if we ever do).

-- 
Felipe Contreras