On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, <oscar@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Changed "&" with "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt. Documentation/SubmittingPatches says: Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz" instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change its behaviour. > From: Oscar Utbult <oscar@xxxxxxx> > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3127/when-to-use-instead-of-and It might be that a link is enough, but I would prefer to have an excerpt from that, possibly with the link as reference. Thanks, Frans > > Signed-off-by: Oscar Utbult <oscar@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/applying-patches.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/applying-patches.txt b/Documentation/applying-patches.txt > index a083ba3..77df55b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/applying-patches.txt > +++ b/Documentation/applying-patches.txt > @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Common errors when patching > --- > When patch applies a patch file it attempts to verify the sanity of the > file in different ways. > -Checking that the file looks like a valid patch file & checking the code > +Checking that the file looks like a valid patch file and checking the code > around the bits being modified matches the context provided in the patch are > just two of the basic sanity checks patch does. > > -- > 1.8.0.1 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
