On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> How about a sentence with no negation? >> >> "Note that the leading dot is required if you want a dot between the >> patch name and the suffix." > > How about a sentence that does not sound requirement but freedom? > > "The leading character does not have to be a dot; for example, you > can use --suffix=-patch to get 0001-description-of-my-change-patch". Looks even better. Do we still want to start off by saying "Note that the..." ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html