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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-apply.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-files.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-fsck.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/githooks.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt2
7 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
index feb51f124a..44e1968a1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ discouraged.
considered whitespace errors.
+
By default, the command outputs warning messages but applies the patch.
-When `git-apply is used for statistics and not applying a
+When `git-apply` is used for statistics and not applying a
patch, it defaults to `nowarn`.
+
You can use different `<action>` to control this
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index c4dbc2ae34..59a6fd17ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
Automatically implies --tags.
--abbrev=<n>::
- Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+ Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
--candidates=<n>::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
index 5c8c1d95a8..c526141564 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ OPTIONS
-------
include::diff-options.txt[]
--1 -2 -3 or --base --ours --theirs, and -0::
+-1 --base::
+-2 --ours::
+-3 --theirs::
+-0::
Diff against the "base" version, "our branch" or "their
branch" respectively. With these options, diffs for
merged entries are not shown.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
index d5a7647219..287c4fc5e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fsck.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ that aren't readable from any of the specified head nodes.
So for example
- git fsck --unreachable HEAD $(cat .git/refs/heads/*)
+ git fsck --unreachable HEAD \
+ $(git for-each-ref --format="%(objectname)" refs/heads)
will do quite a _lot_ of verification on the tree. There are a few
extra validity tests to be added (make sure that tree objects are
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index 5faaaa5fed..024abb2ff1 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ This hook is invoked by 'git-commit' right after preparing the
default log message, and before the editor is started.
It takes one to three parameters. The first is the name of the file
-that the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit
+that contains the commit log message. The second is the source of the commit
message, and can be: `message` (if a `-m` or `-F` option was
given); `template` (if a `-t` option was given or the
configuration option `commit.template` is set); `merge` (if the
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index a9668e5f2d..4242dc0142 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ allocated memory or not), use `strbuf_detach()` to unwrap a memory
buffer from its strbuf shell in a safe way. That is the sole supported
way. This will give you a malloced buffer that you can later `free()`.
+
-However, it it totally safe to modify anything in the string pointed by
+However, it is totally safe to modify anything in the string pointed by
the `buf` member, between the indices `0` and `len-1` (inclusive).
. The `buf` member is a byte array that has at least `len + 1` bytes
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 99cb80878b..2ae88c575d 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ so on a different branch and then coming back), unstash the
work-in-progress changes.
------------------------------------------------
-$ git stash "work in progress for foo feature"
+$ git stash save "work in progress for foo feature"
------------------------------------------------
This command will save your changes away to the `stash`, and