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PATCH In review Yawar Amin 2 participants 5 messages Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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PATCH 1/1 Documentation: clarify grammar

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that former' and latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git protocol.

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 Documentation/urls.txt |    2 +-
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Documentation/urls.txt +1 -1
index 459a394..29ded16 100644
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ to name the remote repository:
 SSH is the default transport protocol over the network.  You can
 optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate,
 scp-like syntax is also supported.  Both syntaxes support
-username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but
+username expansion (as does the native git protocol) but
 only the former supports port specification. The following
 three are identical to the last three above, respectively:
 
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Hi,

Quoted 4 lines · Yawar Amin

Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that former' and latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git protocol.

I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.

-- Ram

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143499

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Quoted 4 lines · Ramkumar Ramachandra

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Yawar Amin <[email protected]> wrote:

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Parenthesize the mention of the git protocol to make it clear that former' and latter' refer to the standard SSH syntax and the alternate SCP-like syntax, rather than the SSH protocol and git protocol.

I've already submitted a patch to rewrite large portions of the urls.txt page [1]. Kindly submit patches against that.

I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Thanks,

Yawar

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I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.

-- Ram

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Quoted 7 lines · Ramkumar Ramachandra
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I see there are some extensive changes. Do you have a public repo I could pull from and base my patch on? That should make things easier.

Um, yes but considering that this is just a simple documentation patch, we can probably just wait for Junio to pick it up- a few days.

I'll wait a few days and resubmit. :-)

Thanks,

Yawar