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[PATCH] doc: Expound on how to specify the version of a package.

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From: Xinglu Chen <public <at> yoctocell.xyz>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 48667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#48667] [PATCH] doc: Add reference for
 ‘git-ver
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:33:45 +0200

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On Sun, Jun 06 2021, Maxime Devos wrote:

> Xinglu Chen schreef op zo 06-06-2021 om 11:19 [+0200]:
>> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} git-version @var{VERSION} @var{REVISION} @var{COMMIT}
>> +Return the version string for packages using @code{git-fetch}.
>> +
>> +@lisp
>> +(git-version "0.2.3" "0" "93818c936ee7e2f1ba1b315578bde363a7d43d05")
>> +@result{} "0.2.3-0.93818c9"
>> +@end lisp
>> +@end deffn
>> +
>> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} hg-version @var{VERSION} @var{REVISION} @var{CHANGESET}
>> +Return the version string for packages using @code{hg-fetch}.  It works
>> +in the same was @code{git-version}
>> +@end deffn
>
> Linguistic nitpick: about ‘It works in the same was @code{git-version}’: ‘in the same was’
> seems ungrammatical to me. Should this have been something like
>
>    It works in the same way as @code{git-version}.
>
> ? (Remember to include the period.)

Indeed, I must have made a silly typo.

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