On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:27:59PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote: > It's certainly common, I don't think that it's correct though. In cases like this some seem to think it's actually required: "Use a hyphen to connect two or more words functioning together as an adjective before a noun." (From p. 234 of "A Writer's Reference", 3rd ed., Diana Hacker--just what I happen to have on my shelf.) I suppose it's there to help find the modified noun when you're constructing modifiers out of multiple words that aren't necessarily adjectives. But whatever, I've no real objection to the patch. > Please don't take "vulgar" to mean disgusting, I meant "common". Sorry > if that was offensive. Nah, just curious. "For" seems a little more precise in this case, so fair enough. > > What we really need is a complete recovery tutorial to stick in here > > someplace. (One day git complains about a corrupt pack file. What > > do you do?) What's been stopping me from doing it, besides time, is > > no idea how to come up with a good example to work with. > > A big magnet on your hard disk? ;-) Hah. OK, next suggestion.... --b. - 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
