[PATCH v2 9/9] Documentation: some sparsity wording clarifications

["Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

Improve the wording for a couple paragraphs in two different manuals
relating to sparse behavior.

Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-read-tree.txt       |  9 +++++----
 Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt | 10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 99bb387134d..cbafb1aed49 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -375,10 +375,11 @@ have finished your work-in-progress), attempt the merge again.
 SPARSE CHECKOUT
 ---------------
 
-Note: The `update-index` and `read-tree` primitives for supporting the
-skip-worktree bit predated the introduction of
-linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1].  Users are encouraged to use
-`sparse-checkout` in preference to these low-level primitives.
+Note: The skip-worktree capabilities in linkgit:git-update-index[1]
+and `read-tree` predated the introduction of
+linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1].  Users are encouraged to use the
+`sparse-checkout` command in preference to these plumbing commands for
+sparse-checkout/skip-worktree related needs.
 
 "Sparse checkout" allows populating the working directory sparsely.
 It uses the skip-worktree bit (see linkgit:git-update-index[1]) to
diff --git a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
index aaf3ae63853..e4a29a2baa9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-sparse-checkout.txt
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-This command is used to create sparse checkouts, which means that it
-changes the working tree from having all tracked files present, to only
-have a subset of them.  It can also switch which subset of files are
-present, or undo and go back to having all tracked files present in the
-working copy.
+This command is used to create sparse checkouts, which change the
+working tree from having all tracked files present to only having a
+subset of those files.  It can also switch which subset of files are
+present, or undo and go back to having all tracked files present in
+the working copy.
 
 The subset of files is chosen by providing a list of directories in
 cone mode (the default), or by providing a list of patterns in
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