RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles

Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jason St. John committed May 16, 2014 at 23:30 UTC 3054c66bd465175656ab16c0fa9de79284898223
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
44 The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
45 time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
46 refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
47 -it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
47 +it is told otherwise with its "--prefix" option.
48
49
50 Updates since v1.9 series
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Updates since v1.9 series
53 UI, Workflows & Features
54
55 * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated
56 - to a more recent version from the upstream.
56 + to a more recent version from upstream.
57
58 * The "remote-hg/bzr" remote-helper interfaces (in contrib/) are
59 now maintained separately as a third-party plug-in.
@@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
66 single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output.
67
68 * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to
69 - parse command line options and to give help text learned to take
69 + parse command-line options and to give help text learned to take
70 the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
71 e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
72
73 * The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
74 - "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to help C++ source better.
74 + "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to improve viewing C++
75 + sources.
76
77 * "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
78 branch that we were previously on.
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
83 "--sort=version:refname".
84
85 * Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
85 - result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
86 + result wants to be pulled from and make sure that what the end user
87 specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
88 mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public
89 repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to
@@ -117,28 +118,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
118 * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
119 been marked for i18n/l10n.
120
120 - * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
121 - is not a blob as an error.
121 + * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses as an error an attempt to use an
122 + object that is not a blob.
123
124 * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
125 given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
125 - operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
126 - course is rejected).
126 + operation to update the configuration in the standard input is
127 + rejected, of course).
128
129 * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
130 for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
130 - speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
131 + speaking, this is a backward-incompatible change, but very unlikely
132 to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
133
133 - * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
134 - learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
134 + * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull" and "rebase",
135 + learned to take the "--gpg-sign" option on the command line.
136
137 * "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
137 - by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the
138 - command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it).
138 + by setting the "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to "true"
139 + (the command-line option "--no-gpg-sign" should override it).
140
141 * "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the
141 - new "pull.ff" configuration.
142 + new "pull.ff" configuration variable.
143
144 * "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index
145 fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
156
157 * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
158 well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
158 - over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
159 + over HTTP code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
160 "easy" interface.
161
162 * The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
@@ -193,20 +194,20 @@ notes for details).
194
195 * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the
196 transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import
196 - marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out of
197 - sync with the reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
197 + marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of-
198 + sync with reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
199
199 - * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
200 + * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not
201 work well with.
202 (merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
203
204 * zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
205
205 - * bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
206 + * Bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
207 correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push".
208
208 - * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
209 - width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
209 + * Some more Unicode code points, defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
210 + width, have been taught to our display column counting logic.
211 (merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint).
212
213 * Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ notes for details).
221 * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
222 (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint).
223
223 - * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch
224 + * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch
225 refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to
226 "refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to
227 "refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of
@@ -275,7 +276,7 @@ notes for details).
276 (merge 3c3e6f5 rr/doc-merge-strategies later to maint).
277
278 * Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
278 - new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries but it was not
279 + new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries, but it was not
280 cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal.
281 (merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint).
282
@@ -298,19 +299,19 @@ notes for details).
299 ".git" tells us where it is.
300 (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
301
301 - * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
302 - defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
302 + * "git push" did not pay attention to "branch.*.pushremote" if it is
303 + defined earlier than "remote.pushdefault"; the order of these two
304 variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
305 by mistake.
306 (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
307
307 - * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
308 + * Code paths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
309 tightened.
310 (merge f80d1f9 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
311
312 * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
312 - in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
313 - the same as one of the versions being compared.
313 + in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew that it
314 + is the same as one of the versions being compared.
315 (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
316
317 * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
@@ -321,7 +322,7 @@ notes for details).
322
323 * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
324 did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
324 - --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
325 + "--work-tree" (and obviously with "--git-dir") option.
326 (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
327
328 * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
@@ -329,12 +330,12 @@ notes for details).
330 involved. This has been corrected.
331 (merge 6e2068a bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive later to maint.)
332
332 - * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments
333 + * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command-line arguments
334 that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required
335 value for that option.
336 (merge a43219f ds/rev-parse-required-args later to maint.)
337
337 - * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that
338 + * "include.path" variable (or any variable that expects a path that
339 can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
340 boolean, but the code failed to check it.
341 (merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.)
@@ -346,20 +347,20 @@ notes for details).
347 (merge later 655ee9e mw/symlinks to maint.)
348
349 * "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return
349 - correct status value.
350 + the correct status value.
351 (merge f34b205 nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty later to maint.)
352
353 * Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart
353 - HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done
354 + HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when the no-done
355 extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of
355 - shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to
356 + shallow boundary commits after the sending side stopped talking to
357 it.
358 (merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.)
359
360 * Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is
361 bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the
362 extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often
362 - given by command line completion).
363 + given by command-line completion).
364 (merge 2e70c01 nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash later to maint.)
365
366 * Documentation and in-code comments had many instances of mistaken