On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Oscar Utbult wrote: > On 2014-09-25 16:48, Frans Klaver wrote: > > 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. > > Thank you for your feedback Frans. > > So for example a better description would have been: "use 'and' instead > of '&'"? Yes. It is useful to still mention it is affecting documentation only though. This helps identifying whether a change may be related to a defect for example. By the way, I just grepped through the documentation, and there are quite some situations where this same change would happen, so if we care enough, all those instances could be changed. I don't know if we care enough though. That's for others, like Randy, to decide. Frans -- 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
