Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 07:48:20AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> > Then I noticed a "can not" and updated that and other occurrences in >> > Documentation to cannot. The glossary sentence with "can not" was >> > "Consequently, an object can not be changed." To me, that reads like "it is >> >> Hmph, I am not a native speaker, but I have to say that this is the >> first time I heard that "I can not drive" to mean "I have a choice >> of not driving (even though I am capable of driving)". > ... > That said, I think in many error messages, "unable to" is often better > (and we already use it quite frequently). > ... > ... So it is Git saying "you cannot do this", not "I was unable to > do this". :) Thanks. In any case, none of the s/can not/cannot/ in Mark's patch is making anything worse (the only case I can think of that a blind search-and-replace would break would be a phrase like "I can not only do X but...", but the none of the ones Mark spotted is like that), so let's take the patch as-is for now.
