On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 04:34:16PM -0400, Jeffrey Manian wrote: > Hello git community, > > This is about an issue of language style and punctuation, not anything > functional. Apologies in advance if I've brought this to the wrong > place. > > There are a bunch of situations in which git will print a message like > "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'" or "Already > up-to-date." > > In many of these cases, including the two examples I just gave, "up to > date" should not be hyphenated --- at least according to most (if not > all) English-language style guides.
Yes, the Chicago Manual of Style agrees that "[i]f the phrasal adjective follows a verb, it is usually unhyphenated." I often keep this rule in mind when writing commit messages. > Here are a couple posts in support of that, which also explain when it > should and should not be hyphenated: > https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/180611/do-i-keep-myself-up-to-date-or-up-to-date-on-something > http://grammarist.com/usage/up-to-date/ > > And the Chromium community dealing with the same issue: > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-reviews/edodON6G2oY > > I thought about submitting a patch, but I started looking through the > source code and found that "up-to-date" appears 61 times. So before I > get into that I thought I would check with the community to see if > this is something that's already been debated and decided. To my knowledge, we haven't discussed this issue before. I'm not Junio, so I can't speak for whether a patch would ultimately be accepted, but I'm not opposed to seeing or reviewing such a patch. Generally, the rule on the list is that unless the change is very large or wide ranging, you'll find people are more likely to give you feedback on a concrete patch (including whether the idea is desirable) than on an idea in general. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | https://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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