On 06/04/2022 16:14, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > >> On 05/04/2022 08:34, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: >>> On 05/04/22 01.21, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote: >>>> When using ranges, use their sizes as the limit for progress >>>> instead of the size of the full file. >>> The progress limit is defined by number of affected lines, right? >> I'd also wondered about 'their', thinking it was 'the files', rather >> than 'the ranges' [within those files]. >> >> perhaps: s/their/range/ > I actually think that it is obvious that "their" refers to the > ranges and not the file. Between "the ranges" and "the file", only > the former is plural that "their" could possibly refer to. Also, > "instead ... the full file" makes the sentence nonsensical if it > referred to the "file"---"we must use the number of lines in the > file, instead of the number of lines in the file" simply would not > make much sense. I'm on the 'context and guidelines' side of English comprehension, so it was all about files being blamed. > > But I do not object to being more explicit. The core point though was that it can be misunderstood, thus avoiding the indirection, as you say, makes it more explicit for the reader. > >> "When using ranges, use the range sizes as the limit for progress' .. -- Philip
