A English syntax error in section title

wuzhouhui wuzhouhui14 at mails.ucas.ac.cn
Tue Nov 14 07:23:23 CST 2017


After reading the section, I have understand the real meaning of title. Maybe
it is unnecessary to change it.

Thanks.

> On 13 Nov 2017, at 9:50 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, that section is not actually about blocking of merge tracking, but rather about blocking commits made by clients that don't support merge tracking.
> 
> The original sentiment is probably one best expressed using hyphens (as in, "Blocking Merge-Tracking-Unaware Clients"), but long strings of hyphens are generally frowned upon.    I notice that the 1.7 version of the book has this title as simply "Blocking Merge-Unaware Clients", which is an improvement grammatically, but still fails to reflect the scope of what's really happening.
> 
> Maybe we should change the title of that section to reflect the *goal* rather than the specific approach.  Perhaps something such as "Preserving Mergeinfo Integrity"?
> 
> -- Mike
> 
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 1:36 AM, wuzhouhui <wuzhouhui14 at mails.ucas.ac.cn <mailto:wuzhouhui14 at mails.ucas.ac.cn>> wrote:
> I'm not a English-native speaker, but according to my knowledge learned from
> school, should we add a preposition between "Tracking" and "Unaware", like
> "For"?
> 
> Index: en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml
> ===================================================================
> diff --git a/trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml b/trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml
> --- a/trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml      (revision 5490)
> +++ b/trunk/en/book/ch04-branching-and-merging.xml      (working copy)
> @@ -3178,7 +3178,7 @@ D    src/integer.c
> 
>      <!-- =============================================================== -->
>      <sect2 id="svn.branchmerge.advanced.pre1.5clients">
> -      <title>Blocking Merge Tracking Unaware Clients</title>
> +      <title>Blocking Merge Tracking For Unaware Clients</title>
> 
>        <para>If you've just upgraded your server to Subversion 1.5 or
>          later, there's a risk that pre-1.5 Subversion
> 
> 
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