Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description

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On 15/07/21 23.25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
+  - If you still need to refer to an example person that is
+    third-person singular, you may resort to "singular they" to avoid
+    "he/she/him/her", e.g.
+
+      A contributor asks their upstream to pull from them.
+
+    Note that this sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to those who
+    learned English as a second language in some parts of the world.
+

Addendum: For grammatical correctness (for ESL people), proper, plural they can be used. So the last example can be rewritten as:

  Contributors ask their upstream to pull from their repository.

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