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[PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar

From: Andy Parkins <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:15
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

 - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require
   the hyphen
 - "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer
 - "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version
   of this patch
 - "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish"
 - "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to"
   rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to"

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <redacted>
---

My apologies for jumping on your patch, but when I read the context of your
change, I couldn't resist fixing some things around it too.

 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 7eaafa8..d62ccd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1527,9 +1527,9 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 Dangling objects are not a problem.  At worst they may take up a little
-extra disk space.  They can sometimes provide a last-resort method of
-recovery lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details.  However, if
-you want, you may remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the --prune
+extra disk space.  They can sometimes provide a last resort method for
+recovering lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details.  However, if
+you wish, you can remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the --prune
 option to gitlink:git-gc[1]:
 
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1.5.2.1.134.gd166e
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