Correct tenses in documentation.

PATCH In review william pursell 2 participants 2 messages Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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william pursell

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2016-06-15 22:43 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Correct tenses in documentation.

In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb is inconsistent. For example, "Add" vs "Creates". This patch to the .txt files makes all of the verbs for the summaries be present tense. eg, "Creates" becomes "Create".

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 Documentation/git-archive.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-clone.txt   |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-prune.txt   |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Documentation/git-archive.txt +1 -1

index 721e035..4da07c1 100644
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archive(1)
 
 NAME
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-git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
+git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree
 
 
 SYNOPSIS

Documentation/git-clone.txt +1 -1

index 2461c0e..4a5bab5 100644
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-clone(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-clone - Clones a repository into a new directory
+git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory
 
 
 SYNOPSIS

Documentation/git-prune.txt +1 -1

index 50ee5bd..0ace233 100644
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-prune(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-prune - Prunes all unreachable objects from the object database
+git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database
 
 
 SYNOPSIS

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Junio C Hamano

2016-06-15 22:43 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · william pursell

In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb is inconsistent. For example, "Add" vs "Creates". This patch to the .txt files makes all of the verbs for the summaries be present tense. eg, "Creates" becomes "Create".

I find this sensible and matches the convention to use imperative form; I do not think it is "present tense", but in English they look the same.

Thanks.