Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs.

From: Dave Peticolas <redacted>


Signed-off-by: Dave Peticolas <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-merge.txt |   25 ++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index ed3a924..abf63fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt

@@ -74,19 +74,18 @@ it happens.  In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
 report no changes.
 
 [NOTE]
-This is a bit of lie.  In certain special cases, your index are
-allowed to be different from the tree of `HEAD` commit.  The most
-notable case is when your `HEAD` commit is already ahead of what
-is being merged, in which case your index can have arbitrary
-difference from your `HEAD` commit.  Otherwise, your index entries
-are allowed have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
-the result of trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
-from external source to produce the same result as what you are
-merging).  For example, if a path did not exist in the common
-ancestor and your head commit but exists in the tree you are
-merging into your repository, and if you already happen to have
-that path exactly in your index, the merge does not have to
-fail.
+This is a bit of a lie.  In certain special cases, your index is
+allowed to be different from the tree of the `HEAD` commit.  The
+most notable case is when your `HEAD` commit is already ahead of
+what is being merged, in which case your index can have arbitrary
+differences from your `HEAD` commit.  Also, your index entries may
+have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match the result of
+a trivial merge (e.g., you received the same patch from an external
+source to produce the same result as what you are merging).  For example,
+if a path did not exist in the common ancestor and your head commit
+but exists in the tree you are merging into your repository, and if
+you already happen to have that path exactly in your index, the merge
+does not have to fail.