Re: [PATCH 1/1] Changed "&" with "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt.

From: Frans Klaver
Date: Thu Sep 25 2014 - 10:49:07 EST


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, <oscar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Changed "&" with "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt.

Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:

Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
its behaviour.

> From: Oscar Utbult <oscar@xxxxxxx>
>
> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3127/when-to-use-instead-of-and

It might be that a link is enough, but I would prefer to have an
excerpt from that, possibly with the link as reference.

Thanks,
Frans

>
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Utbult <oscar@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/applying-patches.txt | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/applying-patches.txt b/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
> index a083ba3..77df55b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/applying-patches.txt
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Common errors when patching
> ---
> When patch applies a patch file it attempts to verify the sanity of the
> file in different ways.
> -Checking that the file looks like a valid patch file & checking the code
> +Checking that the file looks like a valid patch file and checking the code
> around the bits being modified matches the context provided in the patch are
> just two of the basic sanity checks patch does.
>
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> 1.8.0.1
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