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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-31 16:18:09 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2023-03-31 16:18:09 +0300
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; CONTRIBUTE: Minor stylistic changes.
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@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ admin/notes/bug-triage.
Any change that matters to end-users should have an entry in etc/NEWS.
Try to start each NEWS entry with a sentence that summarizes the entry
-and takes just one line -- this will allow to read NEWS in Outline
+and takes just one line -- this will allow reading NEWS in Outline
mode after hiding the body of each entry.
Doc-strings should be updated together with the code.
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Think about whether your change requires updating the manuals. If you
know it does not, mark the NEWS entry with "---". If you know
that *all* the necessary documentation updates have been made as part
of your changes or those by others, mark the entry with "+++".
-Otherwise do not mark it.
+Otherwise, do not mark it.
If your change requires updating the manuals to document new
functions/commands/variables/faces, then use the proper Texinfo
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ the commit to master, by starting the commit message with "Backport:".
The gitmerge function excludes these commits from the merge to the master.
Some changes should not be merged to master at all, for whatever
-reasons. These should be marked by including something like "Do not
+reason. These should be marked by including something like "Do not
merge to master" or anything that matches gitmerge-skip-regexp (see
admin/gitmerge.el) in the commit message.
@@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ files intended for use only with Emacs version 24.5 and later.
*** Useful files in the admin/ directory
-See all the files in admin/notes/* . In particular, see
-admin/notes/newfile, see admin/notes/repo.
+See all the files in 'admin/notes/*'. In particular, see
+'admin/notes/newfile' and 'admin/notes/repo'.
The file admin/MAINTAINERS records the areas of interest of frequent
Emacs contributors. If you are making changes in one of the files