On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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 demonstrates the distinction between "less" and "fewer".
Intensities (like raw numbers) and mass quantities are less; discrete
objects are fewer.
This is a short line of fewer than 50 characters.
This demonstrates a grammatically correct way of phrasing a constraint
on line length. I could have put the latter half in parentheses, but
then it wouldn't be true. :-)
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.
Agreed.
What did you mean?
See above. You could also use "50-character" as an adjective, but
"single short line (of fewer than 50 characters)" may be more easily
parsed. Another option is "single short line (shorter than 50
characters)". I find it less stilted without "of fewer", but the
repetition of "short" is a little clumsy.
Josh
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