Stephen Boyd <bebarino@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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..." ? Perhaps; I wasn't paying much attention to the whole sentence, but was primarily interested about giving the description less negative connotation. -- 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