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"Doc string" terminology in commit messages

From: Daniel L. Rall <dlr_at_finemaltcoding.com>
Date: 2007-11-21 01:41:50 CET

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, arfrever@tigris.org wrote:

> Author: arfrever
> Revision: 27895
> Property Name: svn:log
> Action: modified
>
> Property diff:
> --- old property value
> +++ new property value
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> * subversion/libsvn_client/merge.c
> - (do_file_merge, do_directory_merge): Doctring updates only.
> + (do_file_merge, do_directory_merge): Docstring updates only.

Can we start consistently referring to these things as a "doc string",
rather than "DocString"? This isn't a proper name like "JavaDoc".
A pet peeve of mine...

Thanks, Dan

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