Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 05/11] Fix some typos and improve wording

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:33

Thomas Ackermann [off-list ref] writes:
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <redacted>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 6241a43..465d9cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ of development leading to that point.
 
 The best way to see how this works is using the linkgit:gitk[1]
 command; running gitk now on a Git repository and looking for merge
-commits will help understand how the Git organizes history.
+commits will help understand how Git organizes history.
 
 In the following, we say that commit X is "reachable" from commit Y
 if commit X is an ancestor of commit Y.  Equivalently, you could say
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ e05db0fd4f31dde7005f075a84f96b360d05984b
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 Or you could recall that the `...` operator selects all commits
-contained reachable from either one reference or the other but not
+reachable from either one reference or the other but not
 both; so
 
 -------------------------------------------------
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ You could just visually inspect the commits since e05db0fd:
 $ gitk e05db0fd..
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a
+or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a
As raised during the initial review, the previous sentence has ended
and this begins a new sentence, I think, hence "Or", not "or".
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 name based on any tag it finds pointing to one of the commit's
 descendants:
 
@@ -864,8 +864,8 @@ because it outputs only commits that are not reachable from v1.5.0-rc1.
 
 As yet another alternative, the linkgit:git-show-branch[1] command lists
 the commits reachable from its arguments with a display on the left-hand
-side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from.  So,
-you can run something like
+side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from.  
+So, if you run something like
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git show-branch e05db0fd v1.5.0-rc0 v1.5.0-rc1 v1.5.0-rc2
@@ -877,15 +877,15 @@ available
 ...
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-then search for a line that looks like
+then a line like
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 + ++ [e05db0fd] Fix warnings in sha1_file.c - use C99 printf format if
 available
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-Which shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1, and
-from v1.5.0-rc2, but not from v1.5.0-rc0.
+shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1,
+and from v1.5.0-rc2, and not from v1.5.0-rc0.
This is easier to read. Good.
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