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From: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Expand a couple of abbreviations
Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 19:29:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236108562-31469-2-git-send-email-mike@abacus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236108562-31469-1-git-send-email-mike@abacus.co.uk>

These may not be obvious to non-native English speakers

Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
---
 Documentation/git-am.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/gitk.txt   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index ff307eb..75081d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
 a one line text.
 
-The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
+The body of the message (in other words, after a blank line that terminates
 RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
 that are different from those of the mail header, to override
 the values of these fields.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index bd005bc..cf465cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ frequently used options.
 <path>...::
 
 	Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
-	avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
+	avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
 	from any preceding options.
 
 Examples
-- 
1.6.0.2.229.g1293c.dirty

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 19:29 [PATCH] Documentation: Typos / spelling fixes in RelNotes Mike Ralphson
2009-03-03 19:29 ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2009-03-03 19:29   ` [PATCH] Documentation: Typo / spelling / formatting fixes Mike Ralphson

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