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Documentation says "at present" |
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Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:24:39 +0100 |
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Hi,
the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
quickly gets wrong and outdated.
https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
and apply unified diffs.
Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
year" and similar terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Relative_time_references
Best,
Roland
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Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#39184: Documentation says "at present" |
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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 08:54:15 -0800 |
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 2:25 PM Roland Illig <address@hidden> wrote:
> the documentation for diffutils uses the words "at present", which
> quickly gets wrong and outdated.
>
> https://github.com/Distrotech/diffutils/blame/49e3b25b41c934ca6945d94de98d747fa5cc9922/doc/diff.texi#L801
>
> GNU diff is not really the only program in the world that can generate
> and apply unified diffs.
>
> Please fix the documentation to avoid the words "at present", "last
> year" and similar terms.
Thanks for the report. Fixed via the attached.
diff-at-present.diff
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