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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] git-clone.txt: Improve --depth description.
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:46:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101084602.GB4934@ins.uni-bonn.de> (raw)

Avoid abbreviation 'revs', improve the language a bit.
---
 Documentation/git-clone.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 253f4f0..cca14d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --depth <depth>::
 	Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
-	specified number of revs.  A shallow repository has
+	specified number of revisions.  A shallow repository has a
 	number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
 	it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
-	want to only look at near the tip of a large project
-	with a long history, and would want to send in a fixes
+	are only interested in the recent history of a large project
+	with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
 	as patches.
 
 <repository>::
-- 
1.5.3.1.522.g85b0

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