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-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cvs-migration.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff-files.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-init-db.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4import.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-push.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-repo-config.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rev-list.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tools.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-upload-tar.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt8
17 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 8601949e80..90722c21fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ People on the git mailing list need to be able to read and
comment on the changes you are submitting. It is important for
a developer to be able to "quote" your changes, using standard
e-mail tools, so that they may comment on specific portions of
-your code. For this reason, all patches should be submited
+your code. For this reason, all patches should be submitted
"inline". WARNING: Be wary of your MUAs word-wrap
corrupting your patch. Do not cut-n-paste your patch; you can
lose tabs that way if you are not careful.
diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
index 1fbca83141..d2b0bd38de 100644
--- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ machine where the repository is hosted. If you don't want to give them a
full shell on the machine, there is a restricted shell which only allows
users to do git pushes and pulls; see gitlink:git-shell[1].
-Put all the committers should in the same group, and make the repository
+Put all the committers in the same group, and make the repository
writable by that group:
------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
index 481b8b3aa0..7248b35d95 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged".
commit with these flags.
-q::
- Remain silent even on nonexisting files
+ Remain silent even on nonexistent files
Output format
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt
index 8a150d861f..0a4fc14b97 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory
with subdirectories for `objects`, `refs/heads`, `refs/tags`, and
-templated files.
+template files.
An initial `HEAD` file that references the HEAD of the master branch
is also created.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
index 209e36bacb..5a17801f6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ OPTIONS
-b::
If any file doesn't begin with a From line, assume it is a
- single mail message instead of signalling error.
+ single mail message instead of signaling error.
-d<prec>::
Instead of the default 4 digits with leading zeros,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 4ce799b520..bebf30ad3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ your local modifications interfere with the merge, again, it
stops before touching anything.
So in the above two "failed merge" case, you do not have to
-worry about lossage of data --- you simply were not ready to do
+worry about loss of data --- you simply were not ready to do
a merge, so no merge happened at all. You may want to finish
whatever you were in the middle of doing, and retry the same
pull after you are done and ready.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4import.txt b/Documentation/git-p4import.txt
index 0858e5efbe..ee9e8fa909 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4import.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4import.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Tags
A git tag of the form p4/xx is created for every change imported from
the Perforce repository where xx is the Perforce changeset number.
Therefore after the import you can use git to access any commit by its
-Perforce number, eg. git show p4/327.
+Perforce number, e.g. git show p4/327.
The tag associated with the HEAD commit is also how `git-p4import`
determines if there are new changes to incrementally import from the
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ may delete the tags.
Notes
-----
-You can interrupt the import (eg. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it
+You can interrupt the import (e.g. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it
without worry.
Author information is automatically determined by querying the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
index 8fb0659438..7d54b17e37 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-redundant.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ OPTIONS
--all::
- Processes all packs. Any filenames on the commandline are ignored.
+ Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are ignored.
--alt-odb::
Don't require objects present in packs from alternate object
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index d5b5ca167c..56afd64f42 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Some short-cut notations are also supported.
-f, \--force::
Usually, the command refuses to update a remote ref that is
- not a descendent of the local ref used to overwrite it.
+ not a descendant of the local ref used to overwrite it.
This flag disables the check. This can cause the
remote repository to lose commits; use it with care.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt b/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
index 803c0d5cae..b03d66f61c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repo-config.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ you can set the filemode to true with
% git repo-config core.filemode true
------------
-The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
-to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
+The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
+what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
to "ssh".
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 6c370e1bef..e220842981 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ OPTIONS
--objects-edge::
Similar to `--objects`, but also print the IDs of
- excluded commits refixed with a `-` character. This is
+ excluded commits prefixed with a `-` character. This is
used by `git-pack-objects` to build 'thin' pack, which
records objects in deltified form based on objects
contained in these excluded commits to reduce network
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
index d79523f56d..0914cbb0ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ History Viewers
- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
- gitk is a simple TK GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
+ gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of GIT repositories easily.
- *gitview* (contrib/)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-tar.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-tar.txt
index a1019a0231..394af62015 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-upload-tar.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-upload-tar.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ to the other end over the git protocol.
This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user.
The UI for the protocol is on the 'git-tar-tree' side, and the
-program pair is meant to be used to get a tar achive from a
+program pair is meant to be used to get a tar archive from a
remote repository.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 51f20c6e67..d00cc3ea52 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ Configuration Mechanism
Starting from 0.99.9 (actually mid 0.99.8.GIT), `.git/config` file
is used to hold per-repository configuration options. It is a
-simple text file modelled after `.ini` format familiar to some
+simple text file modeled after `.ini` format familiar to some
people. Here is an example:
------------
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt b/Documentation/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
index edbcd4c661..926bbdc3cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Then do
and at this point "git bisect" will churn for a while, and tell you what
the mid-point between those two commits are, and check that state out as
-the head of the bew "bisect" branch.
+the head of the new "bisect" branch.
Compile and reboot.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index c2d4a91c7c..fcd64e9b9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ up your changes, along with other changes.
The two commits #2' and #3' in the above picture record the same
changes your e-mail submission for #2 and #3 contained, but
-probably with the new sign-off line added by the upsteam
+probably with the new sign-off line added by the upstream
maintainer and definitely with different committer and ancestry
information, they are different objects from #2 and #3 commits.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt
index 9aadd5cee5..103eb5d989 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The traditional insight:
<pasky> yes
-And Bable-like confusion flowed.
+And Babel-like confusion flowed.
<njs`> oh, hmm, and I'm not sure what this sliding window means either
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ proclaim it a non-issue. Good style too!
(type, basename, size)).
Then we walk through this list, and calculate a delta of
- each object against the last n (tunable paramater) objects,
+ each object against the last n (tunable parameter) objects,
and pick the smallest of these deltas.
Vastly simplified, but the essence is there!
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ used as setup for a later optimization, which is a real word:
do "object name->location in packfile" translation.
<njs`> I'm assuming the real win for delta-ing large->small is
- more homogenous statistics for gzip to run over?
+ more homogeneous statistics for gzip to run over?
(You have to put the bytes in one place or another, but
putting them in a larger blob wins on compression)
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ design options, etc.
Bugs happen, but they are "simple" bugs. And bugs that
actually get some object store detail wrong are almost always
- so obious that they never go anywhere.
+ so obvious that they never go anywhere.
<njs`> Yeah.