Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-10 Thread Jason St. John
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > >> I don't want to write again about each of these points now. I am more >> interested in discussing a good strategy to try to revert the sad >> trend of Git developers being promoted less and less, because I thin

Re: git docs typo - patch

2014-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Joe DF wrote: > Hello, i have a patch here for the git docs. > There is a typo. > See: https://github.com/git/git/pull/103/files > cheers, > - > Joe DF-- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the b

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues

2014-05-21 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Jason St. John wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Jason St. John > --- > Junio pointed out in the link below that there are a number of instances of > e.g. > "command line option" (without a hyphen) in the documentation. This patch > fixe

[PATCH] Documentation: use "command-line" when used as a compound adjective, and fix other minor grammatical issues

2014-05-21 Thread Jason St. John
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- Junio pointed out in the link below that there are a number of instances of e.g. "command line option" (without a hyphen) in the documentation. This patch fixes all of them that I was able to find. The other minor grammatical improvements were not

[PATCH] RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles

2014-05-16 Thread Jason St. John
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt | 75 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt index 6e628d4..e6bf9d6 100644 --- a/Documentation

Re: material for git training sessions/presentations

2014-05-05 Thread Jason St. John
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Scott Chacon wrote: >> The GitHub training team has all of their materials open sourced under >> a CC BY 3.0 license. They're all written in Markdown and hosted on >> GitHub. You can check them out here, including going through an >> onl

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Fix misuses of "nor" in comments. (v3)

2014-03-31 Thread Jason St. John
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Justin Lebar wrote: > This version applies successfully to master, maint, next, and pu. The other > patches in the previous version of this queue apply successfully without any > changes. > > Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar > > --- > Makefile

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Fix misuses of "nor" in comments

2014-03-22 Thread Jason St. John
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Justin Lebar wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > When I send a new patch, should I fold these changes into the original > commit, or should I send them as a separate commit? > >>> diff --git a/builtin/apply.c b/builtin/apply.c >>> index b0d0986..6013e19 100644

Re: [PATCH 3/4] Fix misuses of "nor" in comments

2014-03-20 Thread Jason St. John
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Justin Lebar wrote: > Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar > --- > Makefile| 2 +- > builtin/apply.c | 2 +- > builtin/checkout.c | 2 +- > builtin/log.c

Re: git 1.9.1 tarball

2014-03-19 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:09 PM, 乙酸鋰 wrote: > > Hi, > > Where to find git 1.9.1 tarball? > It is not uploaded to google code. > -- You can download a tarball for 1.9.1 from GitHub: https://github.com/git/git/archive/v1.9.1.tar.gz Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)

2014-01-14 Thread Jason St. John
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Jason St. John" writes: > >> What AsciiDoc formatter (and version) do you use? > > $ asciidoc --version > asciidoc 8.6.8 > > Checking with www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc, I am behind by about

Re: [PATCH] Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)

2014-01-10 Thread Jason St. John
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Jason St. John" writes: > >> Documentation/git-rebase.txt: add a blank line after the two AsciiDoc >> listing blocks > > That looks funnily formatted, out of place and redundant. > >> Wit

Re: defaulting git stash to "--keep-index"

2013-11-19 Thread Jason St. John
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Having lost "add -p" work enough times when stashing, I finally > dug into the docs to see how to prevent it, discovering that > "--keep-index" does exactly what I want. However, now I have trouble > remembering to add the "--keep-index" until a

[PATCH] Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes

2013-11-19 Thread Jason St. John
Replace double quotes around literal examples with backticks Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- Documentation/gitcli.txt | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 3146413..41bed29 100644 --- a

Re: [PATCH] Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)

2013-11-19 Thread Jason St. John
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Jason St. John wrote: > >> Documentation/git-rebase.txt: add a blank line after the two AsciiDoc >> listing blocks > > I'd leave out the above two description lines, since they're

[PATCH] Fix typesetting in Bugs section of 'git-rebase' man page (web version)

2013-11-19 Thread Jason St. John
end of the document. Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- You can see the carnage here: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_bugs This fixes GitHub issue github/gitscm-next#281 https://github.com/github/gitscm-next/issues/281 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix minor grammatical and other formatting issues in the "git log" man page

2013-11-14 Thread Jason St. John
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Jason St. John wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> "Jason St. John" writes: >> >>> Documentation/git-log.txt: >>> -- replace single quotes around options/commands with backticks &g

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix minor grammatical and other formatting issues in the "git log" man page

2013-11-14 Thread Jason St. John
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Jason St. John" writes: > >> Documentation/git-log.txt: >> -- replace single quotes around options/commands with backticks >> -- use single quotes around references to sections >> -- replaced some d

[PATCHv3 2/2] Documentation/rev-list-options.txt: fix some grammatical issues and typos

2013-11-14 Thread Jason St. John
quot;the") -- change "E-mail" to "email" Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- I changed "E-mail" to "email" because that is clearly the dominant form: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=#q=%22email%22%2C%20%22E-mail%22&cmpt=q Documentation/rev-

[PATCHv3 1/2] Fix single quotes, AsciiDoc escaping, and other formatting issues

2013-11-14 Thread Jason St. John
'') Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- This is a resubmit of a previous patch: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=138431995913311&w=2 I decided to remove the blank lines after option subheadings because the syntax highlighting in Vim actually looks better with them removed. I'm not sure

[PATCH v2] State correct usage of literal examples in man pages in the coding standards

2013-11-14 Thread Jason St. John
`--pretty=oneline` instead of `\--pretty=oneline`). This commit also states correct usage for typesetting command usage examples with inline substitutions. Thanks-to: Ramkumar Ramachandra Thanks-to: Stuart Rackham Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- This is a resubmit of

[PATCH 2/2] Fix minor grammatical and other formatting issues in the "git log" man page

2013-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
referring to section headings -- use backticks around option arguments/defaults Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- When working on this commit, I noticed a difference in how options and option descriptions are separated (e.g. with a blank line or not). At least with Vim's syntax highlighting

[PATCH 1/2] Rewrite man page explanation of git log's "--log-size" option

2013-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
Documentation/git-log.txt: --log-size was added in commit 9fa3465, and the commit message contained a satisfactory explanation; however, the man page entry for it was unclear and cryptic. Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- This is effectively a resubmit of my previous

[PATCH] Fix single quotes, AsciiDoc escaping, and other formatting/grammatical issues

2013-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
proper AsciiDoc quotes (e.g. ``foo'') -- slightly reworded some sentences for easier reading -- fix some typos (e.g. "show" -> "shown") Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- This is a resubmit of patch 2/4 from my earlier patchset: http://marc.info

[PATCH] State correct usage of backticks for options in man pages in the coding guidelines

2013-11-12 Thread Jason St. John
(e.g. use `--pretty=oneline` instead of `\--pretty=oneline`). Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- This was discussed here: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=138419319223845&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=git&m=138424552300662&w=2 Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 22 +++--- 1 file ch

[PATCH 2/4] Emphasize options and force ASCIIDOC escaping of "--"

2013-11-08 Thread Jason St. John
-walk" description ("show" --> "shown") rev-list-options.txt: replaced some instances of double quotes with their ASCIIDOC equivalent (e.g. """a "-" character""" becomes """a ``-'' character"&q

[PATCH 3/4] Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation" directory

2013-11-08 Thread Jason St. John
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct). Correct this in these files: -- date-formats.txt -- git-blame.txt -- git-cvsimport.txt -- git-fast-import.txt -- git-svn.txt -- gitweb.conf.txt -- rev-list-options.txt Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --

[PATCH 4/4] Correct word usage of "timezone" in "Documentation/RelNotes" directory

2013-11-08 Thread Jason St. John
"timezone" is two words, not one (i.e. "time zone" is correct). Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- I broke this off into a separate patch in case the release notes are essentially "fixed" in history and typos, misspellings, etc. don't get corrected. Sources ar

[PATCH 1/4] Minor grammatical fixes in "git log" man page

2013-11-08 Thread Jason St. John
git-log.txt: grammatical fixes under --log-size option Signed-off-by: Jason St. John --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 34097ef..243a9c5 100644 --- a/Documentation