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authorLibravatar Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>2007-12-18 07:07:36 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-12-18 12:00:18 -0800
commit02ff62504e12cb1925a59b6956508dc70984c5b4 (patch)
treebdca90b2a4c808f19095e9a0a39b94966b9a7aa9
parentbuiltin-blame.c: remove unneeded memclr() (diff)
downloadtgif-02ff62504e12cb1925a59b6956508dc70984c5b4.tar.xz
Fix some documentation typos.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-help.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-list.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-send-email.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt4
6 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 8a0df5736e..ee0884545b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ fetch.unpackLimit::
format.numbered::
A boolean which can enable sequence numbers in patch subjects.
- Seting this option to "auto" will enable it only if there is
+ Setting this option to "auto" will enable it only if there is
more than one patch. See --numbered option in
gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index da3f71850a..a8ffcbe78b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ printed on the standard output.
If a git command is named, a manual page for that command is brought
up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this
-can be overriden by other options or configuration variables.
+can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the
former is internally converted into the latter.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ OPTIONS
-------
-a|--all::
Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
- option superseeds any other option.
+ option supersedes any other option.
-i|--info::
Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
these config variables is set, the 'git-help--browse' helper script
(called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default.
+
-You can explicitly provide a full path to your prefered browser by
+You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git-help--browse' assumes the tool
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ line option:
* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web',
The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
-be checked if the 'web' format is choosen (either by command line
+be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
section above.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 07484a4fd0..e51351dd53 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is given:
- 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository
readable by all users.
-By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastforward is enabled
+By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
into it.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 989fbf3562..a03f9fe5fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ limiting may be applied.
--quiet::
Don't print anything to standard output. This form of
- git-rev-list is primarly meant to allow the caller to
+ git-rev-list is primarily meant to allow the caller to
test the exit status to see if a range of objects is fully
connected (or not). It is faster than redirecting stdout
to /dev/null as the output does not have to be formatted.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 659215ac72..f0bd2851d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ sendemail.identity::
'sendemail.<identity>.<item>' will have higher precedence than
'sendemail.<item>'. This is useful to declare multiple SMTP
identities and to hoist sensitive authentication information
- out of the repository and into the global configuation file.
+ out of the repository and into the global configuration file.
sendemail.aliasesfile::
To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index e0f9a4490c..37235b993d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ as tags and branch heads.
The object database contains objects of three main types: blobs, which
hold file data; trees, which point to blobs and other trees to build up
-directory heirarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree
+directory hierarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree
and some number of parent commits.
The commit, equivalent to what other systems call a "changeset" or
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ efficiency may later be compressed together into "pack files".
Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in history. A ref
may contain the SHA1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs
with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA1 name of the most
-recent commit (or "head") of a branch under developement. SHA1 names of
+recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development. SHA1 names of
tags of interest are stored under `ref/tags/`. A special ref named
`HEAD` contains the name of the currently checked-out branch.