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authorŠtěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>2012-07-15 00:20:36 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-08-06 15:34:20 -0700
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doc: A few minor copy edits.
- (glossary) the quotes around the Wikipedia URL prevented its linkification in frontends that support it; remove them - (manual) newer version (SHA-1) == following, older == preceding, not the other way around - trivial typo and wording fixes Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rebase.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/rev-list-options.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt12
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 3ceefb8a1..20f922851 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ final result verbatim. When both sides made changes to the same area,
however, git cannot randomly pick one side over the other, and asks you to
resolve it by leaving what both sides did to that area.
-By default, git uses the same style as that is used by "merge" program
+By default, git uses the same style as the one used by the "merge" program
from the RCS suite to present such a conflicted hunk, like this:
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 147fa1a8e..feb51a6ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ which makes little sense.
Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
This implies `--merge` and, if no strategy has been
specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and
- 'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
+ 'theirs' as noted above for the `-m` option.
-q::
--quiet::
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 3595b586b..f928b57f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ to point at the new commit.
[[def_ent]]ent::
Favorite synonym to "<<def_tree-ish,tree-ish>>" by some total geeks. See
- `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent_(Middle-earth)` for an in-depth
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ent_(Middle-earth) for an in-depth
explanation. Avoid this term, not to confuse people.
[[def_evil_merge]]evil merge::
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 84e34b1ab..d9b2b5b2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ options may be given. See linkgit:git-diff-files[1] for more options.
--cc::
- This flag implies the '-c' options and further compresses the
+ This flag implies the '-c' option and further compresses the
patch output by omitting uninteresting hunks whose contents in
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 02ed5668e..03d95dc29 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2870,7 +2870,7 @@ $ git fetch example
You can also add a "+" to force the update each time:
-------------------------------------------------
-$ git config remote.example.fetch +master:ref/remotes/example/master
+$ git config remote.example.fetch +master:refs/remotes/example/master
-------------------------------------------------
Don't do this unless you're sure you won't mind "git fetch" possibly
@@ -2966,7 +2966,7 @@ As you can see, a commit is defined by:
- a tree: The SHA-1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing
the contents of a directory at a certain point in time.
-- parent(s): The SHA-1 name of some number of commits which represent the
+- parent(s): The SHA-1 name(s) of some number of commits which represent the
immediately previous step(s) in the history of the project. The
example above has one parent; merge commits may have more than
one. A commit with no parents is called a "root" commit, and
@@ -3363,8 +3363,8 @@ Date:
:100644 100644 oldsha... 4b9458b... M somedirectory/myfile
------------------------------------------------
-This tells you that the immediately preceding version of the file was
-"newsha", and that the immediately following version was "oldsha".
+This tells you that the immediately following version of the file was
+"newsha", and that the immediately preceding version was "oldsha".
You also know the commit messages that went with the change from oldsha
to 4b9458b and with the change from 4b9458b to newsha.
@@ -4035,8 +4035,8 @@ $ git ls-files --unmerged
Each line of the `git ls-files --unmerged` output begins with
the blob mode bits, blob SHA-1, 'stage number', and the
filename. The 'stage number' is git's way to say which tree it
-came from: stage 1 corresponds to `$orig` tree, stage 2 `HEAD`
-tree, and stage3 `$target` tree.
+came from: stage 1 corresponds to the `$orig` tree, stage 2 to
+the `HEAD` tree, and stage 3 to the `$target` tree.
Earlier we said that trivial merges are done inside
`git read-tree -m`. For example, if the file did not change