Re: [PATCH] Minor typo in the source repository documentation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martin Mai <mrkanister1024(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor typo in the source repository documentation
Date: 2017-07-09 16:28:43
Message-ID: 4368.1499617723@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martin Mai <mrkanister1024(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I found a typo while reading the source repository documentation:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sourcerepo.html

Hm, I dunno, I like the existing wording better than yours. I agree
that it's a bit unclear that the antecedent of "they" is meant to be
the tools not the files; but this phraseology seems to make the files
be the active agents, which is just weird.

regards, tom lane

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