In another topic, I claimed [1] that singular "they" was better than "he/she" for gender neutrality. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/44d937a0-e876-e185-f409-a4fd61eae580@xxxxxxxxx/ The fact that singular "they" is less awkward to write and read seemed obvious to me, so I did not back up my statement with any references or reasons. The ensuing discussion did include reasons, especially brian m. carlson's thoughtful message [2]. [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YKrk4dEjEm6+48ji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ This patch series officially adopts singular "they" as a contributor guideline; see Patch 4 for the change to the guidelines and the reasoning for the change. Before modifying the guidelines, documentation and comments are updated to not use gendered pronouns, which provides examples of how to use it. I would appreciate ACKs in support on patch 4. Thanks, -Stolee Derrick Stolee (4): Documentation: use singular they when appropriate *: use singular they in comments *: fix typos CodingGuidelines: recommend singular they Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 5 +++ Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- Documentation/git-push.txt | 4 +- .../using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt | 38 +++++++++---------- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- commit.c | 2 +- config.c | 2 +- config.h | 2 +- contrib/hooks/multimail/git_multimail.py | 4 +- date.c | 2 +- pathspec.h | 2 +- strbuf.h | 2 +- t/t9300-fast-import.sh | 2 +- wt-status.c | 2 +- 14 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) base-commit: c09b6306c6ca275ed9d0348a8c8014b2ff723cfb Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-975%2Fderrickstolee%2Fthey-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-975/derrickstolee/they-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/975 -- gitgitgadget
