[PATCH] extdiff: (minor) Grammar "allows to" -> "allows one to"

Javi Merino cibervicho at gmail.com
Sun May 15 12:12:59 CDT 2011


# HG changeset patch
# User Javi Merino <cibervicho at gmail.com>
# Date 1305478822 -3600
# Node ID aea738ced0c1d5e2ed6a4ddc4edb304554da30e3
# Parent  a90131b85fd8fff71758114980eb9e7271492ea7
extdiff: (minor) Grammar "allows to" -> "allows one to"

The verb to allow requires a direct object.

Lintian, a Debian tool to find common mistakes, reported it. I'm not a
native english speaker but I think this is correct.

diff --git a/hgext/extdiff.py b/hgext/extdiff.py
--- a/hgext/extdiff.py
+++ b/hgext/extdiff.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ diff programs are called with a configur
 non-option arguments: paths to directories containing snapshots of
 files to compare.
 
-The extdiff extension also allows to configure new diff commands, so
+The extdiff extension also allows you to configure new diff commands, so
 you do not need to type :hg:`extdiff -p kdiff3` always. ::
 
   [extdiff]


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