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authorLibravatar David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>2009-03-01 22:42:44 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-03-02 12:34:56 -0800
commit1d035f85649cbb0a4fcc3e341f7e854acf9cf3c1 (patch)
tree330fef83381346d1abf7b01d3e4ec927e56ad88d /Documentation
parentDocumentation: minor grammatical fixes. (diff)
downloadtgif-1d035f85649cbb0a4fcc3e341f7e854acf9cf3c1.tar.xz
Documentation: minor grammatical fixes.
The final hunk in this patch corrects what appears to be a typo: of --> or Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt26
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index 05663768d7..9e5baa2777 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and a work tree.
OPTIONS
-------
<patch>...::
- The files to read patch from. '-' can be used to read
+ The files to read the patch from. '-' can be used to read
from the standard input.
--stat::
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
input. Turns off "apply".
--numstat::
- Similar to \--stat, but shows number of added and
- deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without
+ Similar to \--stat, but shows the number of added and
+ deleted lines in decimal notation and the pathname without
abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For
binary files, outputs two `-` instead of saying
`0 0`. Turns off "apply".
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ OPTIONS
causes the index file to be updated.
--cached::
- Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead, take the
- cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index,
+ Apply a patch without touching the working tree. Instead take the
+ cached data, apply the patch, and store the result in the index
without using the working tree. This implies '--index'.
--build-fake-ancestor=<file>::
Newer 'git-diff' output has embedded 'index information'
for each blob to help identify the original version that
the patch applies to. When this flag is given, and if
- the original versions of the blobs is available locally,
+ the original versions of the blobs are available locally,
builds a temporary index containing those blobs.
+
When a pure mode change is encountered (which has no index information),
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ the information is read from the current index instead.
applying a diff generated with --unified=0. To bypass these
checks use '--unidiff-zero'.
+
-Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches are
+Note, for the reasons stated above usage of context-free patches is
discouraged.
--apply::
If you use any of the options marked "Turns off
'apply'" above, 'git-apply' reads and outputs the
- information you asked without actually applying the
+ requested information without actually applying the
patch. Give this flag after those flags to also apply
the patch.
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ discouraged.
patch. This can be used to extract the common part between
two files by first running 'diff' on them and applying
the result with this option, which would apply the
- deletion part but not addition part.
+ deletion part but not the addition part.
--allow-binary-replacement::
--binary::
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
+
-You can use different `<action>` to control this
+You can use different `<action>` values to control this
behavior:
+
* `nowarn` turns off the trailing whitespace warning.
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ behavior:
patch as-is (default).
* `fix` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and applies the
patch after fixing them (`strip` is a synonym --- the tool
- used to consider only trailing whitespaces as errors, and the
+ used to consider only trailing whitespace characters as errors, and the
fix involved 'stripping' them, but modern gits do more).
* `error` outputs warnings for a few such errors, and refuses
to apply the patch.
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ behavior:
adjusting the hunk headers appropriately).
--directory=<root>::
- Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was passed, too,
+ Prepend <root> to all filenames. If a "-p" argument was also passed,
it is applied before prepending the new root.
+
For example, a patch that talks about updating `a/git-gui.sh` to `b/git-gui.sh`
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ignored, i.e., they are not required to be up-to-date or clean and they
are not updated.
If --index is not specified, then the submodule commits in the patch
-are ignored and only the absence of presence of the corresponding
+are ignored and only the absence or presence of the corresponding
subdirectory is checked and (if possible) updated.
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