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[PATCH (resend)] filter-branch: Fix word usage in documentation

From: Kevin Ballard <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-13 23:22:50
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

The documentation for --commit-filter in git-filter-branch talks about
setting multiple parents for the "ancestors of the original commit".
This is logically impossible. I believe the intended word was "descendants".

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 8d80f0d..959a9e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	stdin.  The commit id is expected on stdout.
 +
 As a special extension, the commit filter may emit multiple
-commit ids; in that case, ancestors of the original commit will
+commit ids; in that case, descendants of the original commit will
 have all of them as parents.
 +
 You can use the 'map' convenience function in this filter, and other
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