On 10/07/2022 23:04, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes: > >>>> + This option implies `-u`. Lone CR characters are untouched, so >>>> + cleaning *^* not idempotent. A CRCRLF sequence cleans to CRLF. >>> Lack of verb BE somewhere. >> '^' It took me three re-reads to see my mistyping as my head knew what >> I'd meant to write, I've marked above as a note to self. >> Aside: Are there any guides / suggestions / how-to's for on-line >> reviewing that you can recommend o > Sorry, but I do not know of any good "trick" to fight against our > common tendency to easily miss trivial typoes and thinkos in what we > ourselves wrote. We can be surprisingly blind to what a colleague > can spot immediately, and that is why it helps to have a thorough > read-through by a reviewer with fresh eyes. When I was a more > prolific contributor, I sometimes tried to read aloud what I wrote > to myself, both docs and code, and caught silly mistakes before > sending them out to the list, but I do not recommend it to others. Thanks. There does appear to be a lack of literature or articles in this area of on-list reviewing I've not even seen an list of snippets collated from email advice. Other than the email etiquette's starter for ten on don't top post ;-) -- Philip
