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From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-filter-branch: Fix word usage for --commit-filter
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 23:15:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210821344-3803-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org> (raw)

The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about
setting multiple parents for the "ancestors of the original commit".
It really meant to say the "children of the original commit".

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
---
 Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 8d80f0d..137e2ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	stdin.  The commit id is expected on stdout.
 +
 As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple
-commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will
+commit ids; in that case, children of the original commit will
 have all of them as parents.
 +
 You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other
-- 
1.5.5.1.373.g4a2ed


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