Merge branch 'dm/maint-docco' into maint

* dm/maint-docco:
  Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fix in git-check-ref-format.txt
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-check-attr.txt
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-cat-file.txt
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt
  Documentation: remove some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt
  Documentation: reword example text in git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: reworded the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-branch.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-blame.txt.
  Documentation: reword the "Description" section of git-bisect.txt.
  Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.

10 files changed, 234 insertions, 230 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
index df2a7c1641..26cfb62195 100644
--- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ of lines before or after the line given by <start>.
 	Show raw timestamp (Default: off).
 
 -S <revs-file>::
-	Use revs from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+	Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
 --reverse::
 	Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 5b3eb12c8a..ad38f7f39d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
-used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
+used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Prepend <prefix>/ to each filename in the archive.
 
 <extra>::
-	This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+	This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
 	See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
-	Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+	Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
 	retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 
 	Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
-	latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+	latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
 	`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index 147ea38197..e5862b9dbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-bisect(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-bisect - Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search
+git-bisect - Find by binary search the change that introduced a bug
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ help" or "git bisect -h" to get a long usage description.
 Basic bisect commands: start, bad, good
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The way you use it is:
+Using the Linux kernel tree as an example, basic use of the bisect
+command is as follows:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git bisect start
@@ -48,61 +49,63 @@ $ git bisect good v2.6.13-rc2    # v2.6.13-rc2 was the last version
                                  # tested that was good
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-When you give at least one bad and one good versions, it will bisect
-the revision tree and say something like:
+When you have specified at least one bad and one good version, the
+command bisects the revision tree and outputs something similar to
+the following:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 Bisecting: 675 revisions left to test after this
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-and check out the state in the middle. Now, compile that kernel, and
-boot it. Now, let's say that this booted kernel works fine, then just
-do
+The state in the middle of the set of revisions is then checked out.
+You would now compile that kernel and boot it. If the booted kernel
+works correctly, you would then issue the following command:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git bisect good			# this one is good
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-which will now say
+The output of this command would be something similar to the following:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 Bisecting: 337 revisions left to test after this
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-and you continue along, compiling that one, testing it, and depending
-on whether it is good or bad, you say "git bisect good" or "git bisect
-bad", and ask for the next bisection.
+You keep repeating this process, compiling the tree, testing it, and
+depending on whether it is good or bad issuing the command "git bisect good"
+or "git bisect bad" to ask for the next bisection.
 
-Until you have no more left, and you'll have been left with the first
-bad kernel rev in "refs/bisect/bad".
+Eventually there will be no more revisions left to bisect, and you
+will have been left with the first bad kernel revision in "refs/bisect/bad".
 
 Bisect reset
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Oh, and then after you want to reset to the original head, do a
+To return to the original head after a bisect session, issue the
+following command:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git bisect reset
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-to get back to the original branch, instead of being on the bisection
-commit ("git bisect start" will do that for you too, actually: it will
-reset the bisection state).
+This resets the tree to the original branch instead of being on the
+bisection commit ("git bisect start" will also do that, as it resets
+the bisection state).
 
 Bisect visualize
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-During the bisection process, you can say
+To see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk', issue the following
+command during the bisection process:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect visualize
 ------------
 
-to see the currently remaining suspects in 'gitk'.  `visualize` is a bit
-too long to type and `view` is provided as a synonym.
+`view` may also be used as a synonym for `visualize`.
 
-If 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
-instead.  You can even give command line options such as `-p` and
+If the 'DISPLAY' environment variable is not set, 'git log' is used
+instead.  You can also give command line options such as `-p` and
 `--stat`.
 
 ------------
@@ -112,57 +115,58 @@ $ git bisect view --stat
 Bisect log and bisect replay
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The good/bad input is logged, and
+After having marked revisions as good or bad, issue the following
+command to show what has been done so far:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect log
 ------------
 
-shows what you have done so far. You can truncate its output somewhere
-and save it in a file, and run
+If you discover that you made a mistake in specifying the status of a
+revision, you can save the output of this command to a file, edit it to
+remove the incorrect entries, and then issue the following commands to
+return to a corrected state:
 
 ------------
+$ git bisect reset
 $ git bisect replay that-file
 ------------
 
-if you find later you made a mistake telling good/bad about a
-revision.
-
-Avoiding to test a commit
+Avoiding testing a commit
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-If in a middle of bisect session, you know what the bisect suggested
-to try next is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit
+If, in the middle of a bisect session, you know that the next suggested
+revision is not a good one to test (e.g. the change the commit
 introduces is known not to work in your environment and you know it
 does not have anything to do with the bug you are chasing), you may
-want to find a near-by commit and try that instead.
+want to find a nearby commit and try that instead.
 
-It goes something like this:
+For example:
 
 ------------
-$ git bisect good/bad			# previous round was good/bad.
+$ git bisect good/bad			# previous round was good or bad.
 Bisecting: 337 revisions left to test after this
 $ git bisect visualize			# oops, that is uninteresting.
-$ git reset --hard HEAD~3		# try 3 revs before what
+$ git reset --hard HEAD~3		# try 3 revisions before what
 					# was suggested
 ------------
 
-Then compile and test the one you chose to try. After that, tell
-bisect what the result was as usual.
+Then compile and test the chosen revision, and afterwards mark
+the revision as good or bad in the usual manner.
 
 Bisect skip
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you may just want git
-to do it for you using:
+Instead of choosing by yourself a nearby commit, you can ask git
+to do it for you by issuing the command:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect skip                 # Current version cannot be tested
 ------------
 
 But computing the commit to test may be slower afterwards and git may
-eventually not be able to tell the first bad among a bad and one or
-more "skip"ped commits.
+eventually not be able to tell the first bad commit among a bad commit
+and one or more skipped commits.
 
 You can even skip a range of commits, instead of just one commit,
 using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
@@ -171,33 +175,34 @@ using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
 $ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
 ------------
 
-would mean that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and `v2.6` included
-can be tested.
+This tells the bisect process that no commit after `v2.5`, up to and
+including `v2.6`, should be tested.
 
-Note that if you want to also skip the first commit of a range you can
-use something like:
+Note that if you also want to skip the first commit of the range you
+would issue the command:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect skip v2.5 v2.5..v2.6
 ------------
 
-and the commit pointed to by `v2.5` will be skipped too.
+This tells the bisect process that the commits between `v2.5` included
+and `v2.6` included should be skipped.
+
 
 Cutting down bisection by giving more parameters to bisect start
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-You can further cut down the number of trials if you know what part of
-the tree is involved in the problem you are tracking down, by giving
-paths parameters when you say `bisect start`, like this:
+You can further cut down the number of trials, if you know what part of
+the tree is involved in the problem you are tracking down, by specifying
+path parameters when issuing the `bisect start` command:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect start -- arch/i386 include/asm-i386
 ------------
 
-If you know beforehand more than one good commits, you can narrow the
-bisect space down without doing the whole tree checkout every time you
-give good commits. You give the bad revision immediately after `start`
-and then you give all the good revisions you have:
+If you know beforehand more than one good commit, you can narrow the
+bisect space down by specifying all of the good commits immediately after
+the bad commit when issuing the `bisect start` command:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect start v2.6.20-rc6 v2.6.20-rc4 v2.6.20-rc1 --
@@ -209,38 +214,38 @@ Bisect run
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
 If you have a script that can tell if the current source code is good
-or bad, you can automatically bisect using:
+or bad, you can bisect by issuing the command:
 
 ------------
 $ git bisect run my_script
 ------------
 
-Note that the "run" script (`my_script` in the above example) should
-exit with code 0 in case the current source code is good.  Exit with a
+Note that the script (`my_script` in the above example) should
+exit with code 0 if the current source code is good, and exit with a
 code between 1 and 127 (inclusive), except 125, if the current
 source code is bad.
 
-Any other exit code will abort the automatic bisect process. (A
-program that does "exit(-1)" leaves $? = 255, see exit(3) manual page,
-the value is chopped with "& 0377".)
+Any other exit code will abort the bisect process. It should be noted
+that a program that terminates via "exit(-1)" leaves $? = 255, (see the
+exit(3) manual page), as the value is chopped with "& 0377".
 
 The special exit code 125 should be used when the current source code
-cannot be tested. If the "run" script exits with this code, the current
-revision will be skipped, see `git bisect skip` above.
+cannot be tested. If the script exits with this code, the current
+revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above).
 
-You may often find that during bisect you want to have near-constant
-tweaks (e.g., s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a header file, or
-"revision that does not have this commit needs this patch applied to
-work around other problem this bisection is not interested in")
-applied to the revision being tested.
+You may often find that during a bisect session you want to have
+temporary modifications (e.g. s/#define DEBUG 0/#define DEBUG 1/ in a
+header file, or "revision that does not have this commit needs this
+patch applied to work around another problem this bisection is not
+interested in") applied to the revision being tested.
 
 To cope with such a situation, after the inner 'git bisect' finds the
-next revision to test, with the "run" script, you can apply that tweak
-before compiling, run the real test, and after the test decides if the
-revision (possibly with the needed tweaks) passed the test, rewind the
-tree to the pristine state.  Finally the "run" script can exit with
-the status of the real test to let the "git bisect run" command loop to
-determine the outcome.
+next revision to test, the script can apply the patch
+before compiling, run the real test, and afterwards decide if the
+revision (possibly with the needed patch) passed the test and then
+rewind the tree to the pristine state.  Finally the script should exit
+with the status of the real test to let the "git bisect run" command loop
+determine the eventual outcome of the bisect session.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -257,39 +262,39 @@ $ git bisect run make                # "make" builds the app
 ------------
 $ cat ~/test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
-make || exit 125                   # this "skip"s broken builds
+make || exit 125                   # this skips broken builds
 make test                          # "make test" runs the test suite
 $ git bisect start v1.3 v1.1 --    # v1.3 is bad, v1.1 is good
 $ git bisect run ~/test.sh
 ------------
 +
 Here we use a "test.sh" custom script. In this script, if "make"
-fails, we "skip" the current commit.
+fails, we skip the current commit.
 +
-It's safer to use a custom script outside the repo to prevent
+It is safer to use a custom script outside the repository to prevent
 interactions between the bisect, make and test processes and the
 script.
 +
-And "make test" should "exit 0", if the test suite passes, and
-"exit 1" (for example) otherwise.
+"make test" should "exit 0", if the test suite passes, and
+"exit 1" otherwise.
 
 * Automatically bisect a broken test case:
 +
 ------------
 $ cat ~/test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
-make || exit 125                     # this "skip"s broken builds
+make || exit 125                     # this skips broken builds
 ~/check_test_case.sh                 # does the test case passes ?
 $ git bisect start HEAD HEAD~10 --   # culprit is among the last 10
 $ git bisect run ~/test.sh
 ------------
 +
-Here "check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0", if the test case passes,
-and "exit 1" (for example) otherwise.
+Here "check_test_case.sh" should "exit 0" if the test case passes,
+and "exit 1" otherwise.
 +
-It's safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are
-outside the repo to prevent interactions between the bisect, make and
-test processes and the scripts.
+It is safer if both "test.sh" and "check_test_case.sh" scripts are
+outside the repository to prevent interactions between the bisect,
+make and test processes and the scripts.
 
 Author
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 4ef54d6602..8c7b7b0838 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Annotates each line in the given file with information from the revision which
 last modified the line. Optionally, start annotating from the given revision.
 
-Also it can limit the range of lines annotated.
+The command can also limit the range of lines annotated.
 
-This report doesn't tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
+The report does not tell you anything about lines which have been deleted or
 replaced; you need to use a tool such as 'git-diff' or the "pickaxe"
 interface briefly mentioned in the following paragraph.
 
@@ -48,26 +48,26 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
 	lines between files (see `-C`) and lines moved within a
 	file (see `-M`).  The first number listed is the score.
 	This is the number of alphanumeric characters detected
-	to be moved between or within files.  This must be above
+	as having been moved between or within files.  This must be above
 	a certain threshold for 'git-blame' to consider those lines
 	of code to have been moved.
 
 -f::
 --show-name::
-	Show filename in the original commit.  By default
-	filename is shown if there is any line that came from a
-	file with different name, due to rename detection.
+	Show the filename in the original commit.  By default
+	the filename is shown if there is any line that came from a
+	file with a different name, due to rename detection.
 
 -n::
 --show-number::
-	Show line number in the original commit (Default: off).
+	Show the line number in the original commit (Default: off).
 
 -s::
-	Suppress author name and timestamp from the output.
+	Suppress the author name and timestamp from the output.
 
 -w::
-	Ignore whitespace when comparing parent's version and
-	child's to find where the lines came from.
+	Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and
+	the child's to find where the lines came from.
 
 
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
@@ -79,17 +79,17 @@ header at the minimum has the first line which has:
 - 40-byte SHA-1 of the commit the line is attributed to;
 - the line number of the line in the original file;
 - the line number of the line in the final file;
-- on a line that starts a group of line from a different
+- on a line that starts a group of lines from a different
   commit than the previous one, the number of lines in this
   group.  On subsequent lines this field is absent.
 
 This header line is followed by the following information
 at least once for each commit:
 
-- author name ("author"), email ("author-mail"), time
+- the author name ("author"), email ("author-mail"), time
   ("author-time"), and timezone ("author-tz"); similarly
   for committer.
-- filename in the commit the line is attributed to.
+- the filename in the commit that the line is attributed to.
 - the first line of the commit log message ("summary").
 
 The contents of the actual line is output after the above
@@ -100,23 +100,23 @@ header elements later.
 SPECIFYING RANGES
 -----------------
 
-Unlike 'git-blame' and 'git-annotate' in older git, the extent
-of annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision
+Unlike 'git-blame' and 'git-annotate' in older versions of git, the extent
+of the annotation can be limited to both line ranges and revision
 ranges.  When you are interested in finding the origin for
-ll. 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use `-L` option like these
+lines 40-60 for file `foo`, you can use the `-L` option like so
 (they mean the same thing -- both ask for 21 lines starting at
 line 40):
 
 	git blame -L 40,60 foo
 	git blame -L 40,+21 foo
 
-Also you can use regular expression to specify the line range.
+Also you can use a regular expression to specify the line range:
 
 	git blame -L '/^sub hello {/,/^}$/' foo
 
-would limit the annotation to the body of `hello` subroutine.
+which limits the annotation to the body of the `hello` subroutine.
 
-When you are not interested in changes older than the version
+When you are not interested in changes older than version
 v2.6.18, or changes older than 3 weeks, you can use revision
 range specifiers  similar to 'git-rev-list':
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ commit v2.6.18 or the most recent commit that is more than 3
 weeks old in the above example) are blamed for that range
 boundary commit.
 
-A particularly useful way is to see if an added file have lines
+A particularly useful way is to see if an added file has lines
 created by copy-and-paste from existing files.  Sometimes this
 indicates that the developer was being sloppy and did not
 refactor the code properly.  You can first find the commit that
@@ -162,26 +162,26 @@ annotated.
 +
 Line numbers count from 1.
 
-. The first time that commit shows up in the stream, it has various
+. The first time that a commit shows up in the stream, it has various
   other information about it printed out with a one-word tag at the
-  beginning of each line about that "extended commit info" (author,
-  email, committer, dates, summary etc).
+  beginning of each line describing the extra commit information (author,
+  email, committer, dates, summary, etc.).
 
-. Unlike Porcelain format, the filename information is always
+. Unlike the Porcelain format, the filename information is always
   given and terminates the entry:
 
 	"filename" <whitespace-quoted-filename-goes-here>
 +
-and thus it's really quite easy to parse for some line- and word-oriented
+and thus it is really quite easy to parse for some line- and word-oriented
 parser (which should be quite natural for most scripting languages).
 +
 [NOTE]
 For people who do parsing: to make it more robust, just ignore any
-lines in between the first and last one ("<sha1>" and "filename" lines)
-where you don't recognize the tag-words (or care about that particular
+lines between the first and last one ("<sha1>" and "filename" lines)
+where you do not recognize the tag words (or care about that particular
 one) at the beginning of the "extended information" lines. That way, if
 there is ever added information (like the commit encoding or extended
-commit commentary), a blame viewer won't ever care.
+commit commentary), a blame viewer will not care.
 
 
 MAPPING AUTHORS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 6103d62fe3..7f7b781f24 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -18,19 +18,19 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
-With no arguments, existing branches are listed, the current branch will
+With no arguments, existing branches are listed and the current branch will
 be highlighted with an asterisk.  Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking
 branches to be listed, and option `-a` shows both.
 
-With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contains the named commit
-(in other words, the branches whose tip commits are descendant of the
+With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contain the named commit
+(in other words, the branches whose tip commits are descendants of the
 named commit).  With `--merged`, only branches merged into the named
 commit (i.e. the branches whose tip commits are reachable from the named
 commit) will be listed.  With `--no-merged` only branches not merged into
-the named commit will be listed.  Missing <commit> argument defaults to
-'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch).
+the named commit will be listed.  If the <commit> argument is missing it
+defaults to 'HEAD' (i.e. the tip of the current branch).
 
-In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created.
+In the command's second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created.
 It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
 If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
 equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.
 
 Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
 only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
-in remote repository or if 'git-fetch' was configured not to fetch
-them again. See also 'prune' subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1] for way to
-clean up all obsolete remote-tracking branches.
+in the remote repository or if 'git-fetch' was configured not to fetch
+them again. See also the 'prune' subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1] for a
+way to clean up all obsolete remote-tracking branches.
 
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Move/rename a branch and the corresponding reflog.
 
 -M::
-	Move/rename a branch even if the new branchname already exists.
+	Move/rename a branch even if the new branch name already exists.
 
 --color::
 	Color branches to highlight current, local, and remote branches.
@@ -103,17 +103,17 @@ OPTIONS
 	Show sha1 and commit subject line for each head.
 
 --abbrev=<length>::
-	Alter minimum display length for sha1 in output listing,
-	default value is 7.
+	Alter the sha1's minimum display length in the output listing.
+	The default value is 7.
 
 --no-abbrev::
-	Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them.
+	Display the full sha1s in the output listing rather than abbreviating them.
 
 --track::
-	When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that 'git-pull'
+	When creating a new branch, set up the configuration so that 'git-pull'
 	will automatically retrieve data from the start point, which must be
 	a branch. Use this if you always pull from the same upstream branch
-	into the new branch, and if you don't want to use "git pull
+	into the new branch, and if you do not want to use "git pull
 	<repository> <refspec>" explicitly. This behavior is the default
 	when the start point is a remote branch. Set the
 	branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want
@@ -149,13 +149,13 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <newbranch>::
 	The new name for an existing branch. The same restrictions as for
-	<branchname> applies.
+	<branchname> apply.
 
 
 Examples
 --------
 
-Start development off of a known tag::
+Start development from a known tag::
 +
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ $ git checkout my2.6.14
 <1> This step and the next one could be combined into a single step with
 "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14".
 
-Delete unneeded branch::
+Delete an unneeded branch::
 +
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
@@ -176,21 +176,21 @@ $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
 $ git branch -D test                                    <2>
 ------------
 +
-<1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man". Next 'fetch' or
-'pull' will create them again unless you configure them not to. See
-linkgit:git-fetch[1].
-<2> Delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch is
-currently checked out) does not have all commits from test branch.
+<1> Delete the remote-tracking branches "todo", "html" and "man". The next
+'fetch' or 'pull' will create them again unless you configure them not to.
+See linkgit:git-fetch[1].
+<2> Delete the "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch
+is currently checked out) does not have all commits from the test branch.
 
 
 Notes
 -----
 
-If you are creating a branch that you want to immediately checkout, it's
+If you are creating a branch that you want to checkout immediately, it is
 easier to use the git checkout command with its `-b` option to create
 a branch and check it out with a single command.
 
-The options `--contains`, `--merged` and `--no-merged` serves three related
+The options `--contains`, `--merged` and `--no-merged` serve three related
 but different purposes:
 
 - `--contains <commit>` is used to find all branches which will need
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index 57590b1480..aee7e4a8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 Some workflows require that one or more branches of development on one
 machine be replicated on another machine, but the two machines cannot
-be directly connected so the interactive git protocols (git, ssh,
-rsync, http) cannot be used.  This command provides support for
+be directly connected, and therefore the interactive git protocols (git,
+ssh, rsync, http) cannot be used.  This command provides support for
 'git-fetch' and 'git-pull' to operate by packaging objects and references
 in an archive at the originating machine, then importing those into
 another repository using 'git-fetch' and 'git-pull'
 after moving the archive by some means (i.e., by sneakernet).  As no
-direct connection between repositories exists, the user must specify a
+direct connection between the repositories exists, the user must specify a
 basis for the bundle that is held by the destination repository: the
 bundle assumes that all objects in the basis are already in the
 destination repository.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ verify <file>::
        bundle format itself as well as checking that the prerequisite
        commits exist and are fully linked in the current repository.
        'git-bundle' prints a list of missing commits, if any, and exits
-       with non-zero status.
+       with a non-zero status.
 
 list-heads <file>::
        Lists the references defined in the bundle.  If followed by a
@@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ list-heads <file>::
 unbundle <file>::
        Passes the objects in the bundle to 'git-index-pack'
        for storage in the repository, then prints the names of all
-       defined references. If a reflist is given, only references
-       matching those in the given list are printed. This command is
+       defined references. If a list of references is given, only
+       references matching those in the list are printed. This command is
        really plumbing, intended to be called only by 'git-fetch'.
 
 [git-rev-list-args...]::
        A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git-rev-parse' and
-       'git-rev-list', that specify the specific objects and references
-       to transport.  For example, "master~10..master" causes the
+       'git-rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
+       to transport.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
        current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
        added since its 10th ancestor commit.  There is no explicit
        limit to the number of references and objects that may be
@@ -71,24 +71,24 @@ unbundle <file>::
        A list of references used to limit the references reported as
        available. This is principally of use to 'git-fetch', which
        expects to receive only those references asked for and not
-       necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git-bundle' is
-       acting like 'git-fetch-pack').
+       necessarily everything in the pack (in this case, 'git-bundle' acts
+       like 'git-fetch-pack').
 
 SPECIFYING REFERENCES
 ---------------------
 
 'git-bundle' will only package references that are shown by
 'git-show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads.  References
-such as master~1 cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
+such as `master\~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
 defining the basis.  More than one reference may be packaged, and more
 than one basis can be specified.  The objects packaged are those not
 contained in the union of the given bases.  Each basis can be
-specified explicitly (e.g., ^master~10), or implicitly (e.g.,
-master~10..master, --since=10.days.ago master).
+specified explicitly (e.g. `^master\~10`), or implicitly (e.g.
+`master\~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
 
 It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
-It is okay to err on the side of conservatism, causing the bundle file
-to contain objects already in the destination as these are ignored
+It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file
+to contain objects already in the destination, as these are ignored
 when unpacking at the destination.
 
 EXAMPLE
@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ EXAMPLE
 Assume you want to transfer the history from a repository R1 on machine A
 to another repository R2 on machine B.
 For whatever reason, direct connection between A and B is not allowed,
-but we can move data from A to B via some mechanism (CD, email, etc).
-We want to update R2 with developments made on branch master in R1.
+but we can move data from A to B via some mechanism (CD, email, etc.).
+We want to update R2 with development made on the branch master in R1.
 
-To bootstrap the process, you can first create a bundle that doesn't have
-any basis. You can use a tag to remember up to what commit you sent out
-in order to make it easy to later update the other repository with
-incremental bundle,
+To bootstrap the process, you can first create a bundle that does not have
+any basis. You can use a tag to remember up to what commit you last
+processed, in order to make it easy to later update the other repository
+with an incremental bundle:
 
 ----------------
 machineA$ cd R1
@@ -111,17 +111,17 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master
 machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
 ----------------
 
-Then you sneakernet file.bundle to the target machine B. Because you don't
-have to have any object to extract objects from such a bundle, not only
-you can fetch/pull from a bundle, you can clone from it as if it was a
-remote repository.
+Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. If you are creating
+the repository on machine B, then you can clone from the bundle as if it
+were a remote repository instead of creating an empty repository and then
+pulling or fetching objects from the bundle:
 
 ----------------
 machineB$ git clone /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2
 ----------------
 
 This will define a remote called "origin" in the resulting repository that
-lets you fetch and pull from the bundle. $GIT_DIR/config file in R2 may
+lets you fetch and pull from the bundle. The $GIT_DIR/config file in R2 will
 have an entry like this:
 
 ------------------------
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ have an entry like this:
     fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
 ------------------------
 
-You can fetch/pull to update the resulting mine.git repository after
-replacing the bundle you store at /home/me/tmp/file.bundle with incremental
-updates from here on.
+To update the resulting mine.git repository, you can fetch or pull after
+replacing the bundle stored at /home/me/tmp/file.bundle with incremental
+updates.
 
-After working more in the original repository, you can create an
-incremental bundle to update the other:
+After working some more in the original repository, you can create an
+incremental bundle to update the other repository:
 
 ----------------
 machineA$ cd R1
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle lastR2bundle..master
 machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master
 ----------------
 
-and sneakernet it to the other machine to replace /home/me/tmp/file.bundle,
-and pull from it.
+You then transfer the bundle to the other machine to replace
+/home/me/tmp/file.bundle, and pull from it.
 
 ----------------
 machineB$ cd R2
@@ -152,49 +152,49 @@ machineB$ git pull
 ----------------
 
 If you know up to what commit the intended recipient repository should
-have the necessary objects for, you can use that knowledge to specify the
+have the necessary objects, you can use that knowledge to specify the
 basis, giving a cut-off point to limit the revisions and objects that go
 in the resulting bundle. The previous example used lastR2bundle tag
-for this purpose, but you can use other options you would give to
+for this purpose, but you can use any other options that you would give to
 the linkgit:git-log[1] command. Here are more examples:
 
-You can use a tag that is present in both.
+You can use a tag that is present in both:
 
 ----------------
 $ git bundle create mybundle v1.0.0..master
 ----------------
 
-You can use a basis based on time.
+You can use a basis based on time:
 
 ----------------
 $ git bundle create mybundle --since=10.days master
 ----------------
 
-Or you can use the number of commits.
+You can use the number of commits:
 
 ----------------
 $ git bundle create mybundle -10 master
 ----------------
 
 You can run `git-bundle verify` to see if you can extract from a bundle
-that was created with a basis.
+that was created with a basis:
 
 ----------------
 $ git bundle verify mybundle
 ----------------
 
 This will list what commits you must have in order to extract from the
-bundle and will error out if you don't have them.
+bundle and will error out if you do not have them.
 
 A bundle from a recipient repository's point of view is just like a
-regular repository it fetches/pulls from. You can for example map
-refs, like this example, when fetching:
+regular repository which it fetches or pulls from. You can, for example, map
+references when fetching:
 
 ----------------
 $ git fetch mybundle master:localRef
 ----------------
 
-Or see what refs it offers.
+You can also see what references it offers.
 
 ----------------
 $ git ls-remote mybundle
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
index 668f697c2a..b191276d7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-cat-file(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-cat-file - Provide content or type/size information for repository objects
+git-cat-file - Provide content or type and size information for repository objects
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-In the first form, provides content or type of objects in the repository. The
-type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the object type, or '-s'
-is used to find the object size.
+In its first form, the command provides the content or the type of an object in
+the repository. The type is required unless '-t' or '-p' is used to find the
+object type, or '-s' is used to find the object size.
 
-In the second form, a list of object (separated by LFs) is provided on stdin,
-and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
+In the second form, a list of objects (separated by linefeeds) is provided on
+stdin, and the SHA1, type, and size of each object is printed on stdout.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <object>::
 	The name of the object to show.
 	For a more complete list of ways to spell object names, see
-	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+	the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
 -t::
 	Instead of the content, show the object type identified by
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	stdin. May not be combined with any other options or arguments.
 
 --batch-check::
-	Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not be
-	combined with any other options or arguments.
+	Print the SHA1, type, and size of each object provided on stdin. May not
+	be combined with any other options or arguments.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
index 8c2ac12f5d..50824e3a2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-attr.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-For every pathname, this command will list if each attr is 'unspecified',
+For every pathname, this command will list if each attribute is 'unspecified',
 'set', or 'unset' as a gitattribute on that pathname.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Read file names from stdin instead of from the command-line.
 
 -z::
-	Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with
-	NUL character instead of LF.
+	Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
+	NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
 
 \--::
-	Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes, and all following
+	Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
 	arguments as path names. If not supplied, only the first argument will
 	be treated as an attribute.
 
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ OUTPUT
 The output is of the form:
 <path> COLON SP <attribute> COLON SP <info> LF
 
-Where <path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
+<path> is the path of a file being queried, <attribute> is an attribute
 being queried and <info> can be either:
 
 'unspecified';; when the attribute is not defined for the path.
-'unset';;	when the attribute is defined to false.
-'set';;		when the attribute is defined to true.
+'unset';;	when the attribute is defined as false.
+'set';;		when the attribute is defined as true.
 <value>;;	when a value has been assigned to the attribute.
 
 EXAMPLES
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ org/example/MyClass.java: diff: java
 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
 ---------------
 
-* Listing attribute for multiple files:
+* Listing an attribute for multiple files:
 ---------------
 $ git check-attr myAttr -- org/example/MyClass.java org/example/NoMyAttr.java
 org/example/MyClass.java: myAttr: set
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index 034223cc5a..171b68377d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-check-ref-format(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-check-ref-format - Make sure ref name is well formed
+git-check-ref-format - Ensures that a reference name is well formed
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
@@ -11,40 +11,40 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits non-zero if
-it is not.
+Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits with a non-zero
+status if it is not.
 
 A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags.  A
-branch head is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and
-a tag is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory.  git
-imposes the following rules on how refs are named:
+branch head is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and
+a tag is stored under the `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory.  git
+imposes the following rules on how references are named:
 
-. It can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory)
+. They can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory)
   grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
-  dot `.`;
+  dot `.`.
 
-. It cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere;
+. They cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere.
 
-. It cannot have ASCII control character (i.e. bytes whose
+. They cannot have ASCII control characters (i.e. bytes whose
   values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`,
   caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`,
-  or open bracket `[` anywhere;
+  or open bracket `[` anywhere.
 
-. It cannot end with a slash `/`.
+. They cannot end with a slash `/`.
 
-These rules makes it easy for shell script based tools to parse
-refnames, pathname expansion by the shell when a refname is used
+These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse
+reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used
 unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
-refname expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]).  Namely:
+reference name expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]):
 
-. double-dot `..` are often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
-  context this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
-  ref1 and in ref2).
+. A double-dot `..` is often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
+  contexts this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
+  `ref1` and in `ref2`).
 
-. tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce postfix
+. A tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce the postfix
   'nth parent' and 'peel onion' operation.
 
-. colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
+. A colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
   value and store it in dstref" in fetch and push operations.
   It may also be used to select a specific object such as with
   'git-cat-file': "git cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c".
diff --git a/Documentation/mailmap.txt b/Documentation/mailmap.txt
index e25b154838..288f04e70c 100644
--- a/Documentation/mailmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mailmap.txt
@@ -5,22 +5,21 @@ canonical real names and email addresses.
 
 In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
 real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
-commit (enclosed by '<' and '>') to map to the name. Thus, looks like
-this
+commit (enclosed by '<' and '>') to map to the name. For example:
 --
 	Proper Name <commit@email.xx>
 --
 
-The more complex forms are
+The more complex forms are:
 --
 	<proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
 --
-which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and
+which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and:
 --
 	Proper Name <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
 --
 which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
-commit matching the specified commit email address, and
+commit matching the specified commit email address, and:
 --
 	Proper Name <proper@email.xx> Commit Name <commit@email.xx>
 --
@@ -47,8 +46,8 @@ Jane Doe         <jane@desktop.(none)>
 Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
 ------------
 
-Note how we don't need an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the
-real name of that author is correct already.
+Note how there is no need for an entry for <jane@laptop.(none)>, because the
+real name of that author is already correct.
 
 Example 2: Your repository contains commits from the following
 authors:
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ claus <me@company.xx>
 CTO <cto@coompany.xx>
 ------------
 
-Then, you might want a `.mailmap` file looking like:
+Then you might want a `.mailmap` file that looks like:
 ------------
 <cto@company.xx>                       <cto@coompany.xx>
 Some Dude <some@dude.xx>         nick1 <bugs@company.xx>
@@ -72,4 +71,4 @@ Santa Claus <santa.claus@northpole.xx> <me@company.xx>
 ------------
 
 Use hash '#' for comments that are either on their own line, or after
-the email address.
\ No newline at end of file
+the email address.