On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:35:44AM -0400, Phil Hord wrote: > >error: 'commit' is not possible because you have unmerged files. > >hint: Please, fix them up in the work tree ... > >hint: ... > >fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict. > > This is a tiny grammar nit, but "Please," sounds superfluous now that > it's preceded by "hint:". "Hint" sounds like I'm doing you a favor > by telling you something to do. "Please" sounds like you're doing me > a favor by doing something. Together they just sound like a typo. Agreed. > In either case, the comma after "Please" is wrong. (There are other > messages in the git code which make this same mistake, but there are > more which use "Please <imperative-verb>..." correctly.) I don't know that I'd go so far as to say it's wrong, exactly. Clearly by traditional rules of written grammar it is, but I think the attempt was to convey the pause that one might include if one were speaking the sentence. Still, I think I find it more readable without the comma, and better still if every spot were converted to "hint: ". This question has come up once or twice before, too, so I don't know that a patch removing the commas would be out of line. -Peff -- 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