On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:57 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > canonical: "according to recognized rules or scientific laws." > sounds about right. :) > I actually used as I found it to have the meaning of "conforming to orthodox or recognized rules" :)
> While this was just reflowed and not newly introduced, I am still > left wondering what a changeset is in Git terms. Our > Documentation/glossary says: > > [[def_changeset]]changeset:: > BitKeeper/cvsps speak for "<<def_commit,commit>>". Since Git does > not store changes, but states, it really does not make sense to use > the term "changesets" with Git. > > Maybe we should say instead: > > If <path>exists and is already a valid Git repository, > then this is staged for commit without cloning. > Does seem to be a good change to make. Done. On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 10:05 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > With or without this nit addressed, this patch looks good to me, > > > > > > > Well actually not quite. The subject (and commit message) is very > > vague, > > maybe: > > > Documentation/git-submodule: cleanup "add" section > > > > The "add" section for 'git-submodule' is redundant in its > > description and > > the short synopsis line. Remove the redundant mentioning of the > > 'repository' argument being mandatory. > > > > The text is hard to read because of back-references, so remove > > those. > > > > Replace the word "humanish" by "canonical" as that conveys > better > > what > > we do to guess the path. > > > > While at it, quote all occurrences of '.gitmodules' as that is > an > > important > > file in the submodule context, also link to it on its first > > mention. > > (This paragraph is not exactly what happens in the commit, but > I > > wrote it > > as a way how I would write commit messages. It shows the reader > > how > > you addressed the given problem, with the quantifiers "all" > "the > > first" showing > > what you think is important, and that you deliberately omitted > > others) > Made this change too. -- Regards, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com>
