[PATCH] affect/effect
Richard Cavell
richardcavell at mail.com
Mon Oct 3 00:03:56 CDT 2011
This word should be "effect", because it means "bring into existence" rather than "bring change to". I think it might be just as well to replace it with a term like "perform".
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so as safely as possible. Before changing the working copy,
Subversion logs its intentions in a private <quote>to-do
list</quote>, of sorts. Next, it performs those actions to
- affect the desired change, holding a lock on the relevant part
+ effect the desired change, holding a lock on the relevant part
of the working copy while it works. This prevents other
Subversion clients from accessing the working copy mid-change.
Finally, Subversion releases its lock and cleans up its
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