Without the word "the", the sentence is a little harder to read. The word "the" makes it clearer that the comment refers to discrete patches, and not portions of individual patches. Signed-off-by: Daniel Watson <ozzloy@xxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks for creating git! Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 927f7329a5..b218e27357 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ trigger a new CI build to ensure all tests pass. [[mua]] == MUA specific hints -Some of patches I receive or pick up from the list share common +Some of the patches I receive or pick up from the list share common patterns of breakage. Please make sure your MUA is set up properly not to corrupt whitespaces. -- 2.34.1