fix doc typos

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

5 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.3.txt
index 2a7bfdd5c..d21384695 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.3.3.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Fixes since v1.5.3.2
  * The default shell on some FreeBSD did not execute the
    argument parsing code correctly and made git unusable.
 
- * git-svn incorrectly spawned pager even when the user user
+ * git-svn incorrectly spawned pager even when the user
    explicitly asked not to.
 
  * sample post-receive hook overquoted the envelope sender
diff --git a/Documentation/git-config.txt b/Documentation/git-config.txt
index e4d0e4752..fa161718d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-config.txt
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ See also <<FILES>>.
 
 -z, --null::
 	For all options that output values and/or keys, always
-	end values with with the null character (instead of a
+	end values with the null character (instead of a
 	newline). Use newline instead as a delimiter between
 	key and value. This allows for secure parsing of the
 	output without getting confused e.g. by values that
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index d75e40134..c831548d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ about `DBI->connect()`.
 
 gitcvs.dbname::
 	Database name. The exact meaning depends on the
-	used database driver, for SQLite this is a filename.
+	selected database driver, for SQLite this is a filename.
 	Supports variable substitution (see below). May
 	not contain semicolons (`;`).
 	Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite'
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ gitcvs.dbdriver::
 	with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with
 	'DBD::Pg', and reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'.
 	Please regard this as an experimental feature. May not
-	contain double colons (`:`).
+	contain colons (`:`).
 	Default: 'SQLite'
 
 gitcvs.dbuser::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 5d9c36985..af988821b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -229,13 +229,13 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
 * A colon, optionally followed by a stage number (0 to 3) and a
   colon, followed by a path; this names a blob object in the
   index at the given path.  Missing stage number (and the colon
-  that follows it) names an stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
+  that follows it) names a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
   1 is the common ancestor, stage 2 is the target branch's version
   (typically the current branch), and stage 3 is the version from
   the branch being merged.
 
 Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger.  Both node B and C are
-a commit parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered
+commit parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered
 left-to-right.
 
     G   H   I   J
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ and its parent commits exists.  `r1{caret}@` notation means all
 parents of `r1`.  `r1{caret}!` includes commit `r1` but excludes
 its all parents.
 
-Here are a handful examples:
+Here are a handful of examples:
 
    D                G H D
    D F              G H I J D F
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index 5030d9f2f..6bdf034b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ In a large project where raciness avoidance cost really matters,
 however, the initial computation of all object names in the
 index takes more than one second, and the index file is written
 out after all that happens.  Therefore the timestamp of the
-index file will be more than one seconds later than the the
+index file will be more than one seconds later than the
 youngest file in the working tree.  This means that in these
 cases there actually will not be any racily clean entry in
 the resulting index.