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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/merge-strategies.txt, diff-options: grammar

From: Thomas Rast <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:52

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ resolve::
 recursive::
 	This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
 	algorithm.  When there are more than one common
-	ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+	ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
 	merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
 	the reference tree for the 3-way merge.  This has been
 	reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't this be worded

  When there _is_ more than one common _ancestor_ that ...

instead?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

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