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From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Grammar fixes to "merge" and "patch-id" docs
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:23:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238005422-7647-1-git-send-email-win@wincent.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
---
Just a few grammar glitches that caught my eye while
perusing some man pages.

 Documentation/git-merge.txt        |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-patch-id.txt     |    2 +-
 Documentation/merge-strategies.txt |   14 +++++++-------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index cc0d30f..427ad90 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ include::merge-strategies.txt[]
 
 
 If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
-would want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
+want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index 477785e..253fc0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
 
 When dealing with 'git-diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
 the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
-commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal string.  The first
+commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings.  The first
 string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
 This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 1276f85..ee7f754 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES
 
 resolve::
 	This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
-	and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+	and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
 	algorithm.  It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
 	merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
 	fast.
 
 recursive::
-	This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
-	algorithm.  When there are more than one common
-	ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+	This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge
+	algorithm.  When there is more than one common
+	ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
 	merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
 	the reference tree for the 3-way merge.  This has been
 	reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive::
 	pulling or merging one branch.
 
 octopus::
-	This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
-	complex merge that needs manual resolution.  It is
+	This resolves the more than two-heads case, but refuses to do
+	a complex merge that needs manual resolution.  It is
 	primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
 	heads together.  This is the default merge strategy when
-	pulling or merging more than one branches.
+	pulling or merging more than one branch.
 
 ours::
 	This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
-- 
1.6.2.1

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 18:23 Wincent Colaiuta [this message]
2009-03-25 18:33 ` [PATCH] Grammar fixes to "merge" and "patch-id" docs Junio C Hamano
2009-03-25 19:03   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-03-26  2:20   ` Jeff King
2009-03-26  9:39     ` [PATCH] Grammar fix for "git merge" man page Wincent Colaiuta

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