On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 19:49, Joshua Juran <jjuran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 17:23, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hmph, we probably would want to do s/50 character/&s/ in the two manual >>> pages. >> >> I'm not sure if "with a single short (less than 50 character) line" is >> is grammatically correct with "characters", since "characters line" >> wouldn't make sense. >> >> On the other hand that sentence violates the rule that when you put >> something in parens your sentence should still make sense with >> s/[()]//g, "a single short less than 50 character line" is pushing it. > > If the number of characters is less than 50, then there are fewer than 50 > characters. > > This is a short line of fewer than 50 characters. I don't understand the context of that remark or what you're replying to. I meant that I found the "single short (less than 50 character) line" bit in git-commit.txt, gittutorial.txt and user-manual.txt odd to read. What did you mean? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html