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Is "Fix bug" actually in the present tense? I would have thought present tense would be "Fixing bug", and that Fix bug is imperative. That makes more sense (to
by 6ren 16y ago
Is "Fix bug" actually in the present tense? I would have thought present tense would be "Fixing bug", and that Fix bug is imperative.
That makes more sense (to me) for the example of rebasing - the applied diffs become a list of commands of what to do: Do this! Do that!
- mileszs 16y agoI hesitate to be this guy, but: If I'm not mistaken, strictly speaking, the mood/mode is imperative, but the tense is present. Imperative is not a tense. In English, there are only two true tenses: past and present. To disclose fully, I had only a notion of this before resorting to Wikipedia to confirm and provide some clarity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood
- kleiba 16y agoThey're both present tense: - "Fix bug" is simple present - "Fixing bug" is present progressive