From: dave@krondo.com
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs.
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:58:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200538719-24733-1-git-send-email-dave@krondo.com> (raw)
From: Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>
---
Documentation/git-merge.txt | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index ed3a924..4494595 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ it happens. In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
report no changes.
[NOTE]
-This is a bit of lie. In certain special cases, your index are
-allowed to be different from the tree of `HEAD` commit. The most
+This is a bit of a lie. In certain special cases, your index is
+allowed to be different from the tree of the `HEAD` commit. The most
notable case is when your `HEAD` commit is already ahead of what
is being merged, in which case your index can have arbitrary
-difference from your `HEAD` commit. Otherwise, your index entries
-are allowed have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
-the result of trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
-from external source to produce the same result as what you are
+differences from your `HEAD` commit. Also, your index entries
+may have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
+the result of a trivial merge (e.g., you received the same patch
+from an external source to produce the same result as what you are
merging). For example, if a path did not exist in the common
ancestor and your head commit but exists in the tree you are
merging into your repository, and if you already happen to have
--
1.5.3.8
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 2:59 UTC|newest]
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2008-01-17 2:58 dave [this message]
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2008-01-16 5:16 [PATCH] Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs dave
2008-01-16 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
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