documentation: fix verb tense

Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Elijah Newren committed Oct 8, 2023 at 06:45 UTC 5676b04a44935752314483182114069ecabe230a
13 files changed +20 -20
Documentation/config/advice.txt
+1 -1
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ advice.*::
87 detachedHead::
88 Advice shown when you used
89 linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1]
90 - to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to
90 + to move to the detached HEAD state, to instruct how to
91 create a local branch after the fact.
92 suggestDetachingHead::
93 Advice shown when linkgit:git-switch[1] refuses to detach HEAD
Documentation/config/clone.txt
+1 -1
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ clone.defaultRemoteName::
4 option to linkgit:git-clone[1].
5
6 clone.rejectShallow::
7 - Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one; this can be overridden by
7 + Reject cloning a repository if it is a shallow one; this can be overridden by
8 passing the `--reject-shallow` option on the command line. See linkgit:git-clone[1]
9
10 clone.filterSubmodules::
Documentation/config/column.txt
+1 -1
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ column.branch::
43 See `column.ui` for details.
44
45 column.clean::
46 - Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always
46 + Specify the layout when listing items in `git clean -i`, which always
47 shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details.
48
49 column.status::
Documentation/git-clean.txt
+1 -1
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ filter by pattern::
103 This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
104 "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated
105 patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion.
106 - E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from
106 + E.g. "*.c *.h" will exclude files ending with ".c" and ".h" from
107 deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press
108 ENTER (empty) back to the main menu.
109
Documentation/git-help.txt
+3 -3
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
48 -------
49 -a::
50 --all::
51 - Prints all the available commands on the standard output.
51 + Print all the available commands on the standard output.
52
53 --no-external-commands::
54 When used with `--all`, exclude the listing of external "git-*"
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ OPTIONS
69
70 -g::
71 --guides::
72 - Prints a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.
72 + Print a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.
73
74 --user-interfaces::
75 - Prints a list of the repository, command and file interfaces
75 + Print a list of the repository, command and file interfaces
76 documentation on the standard output.
77 +
78 In-repository file interfaces such as `.git/info/exclude` are
Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
+1 -1
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.
18
19 New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead. The
20 `whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1]
21 -but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges.
21 +but defaults to showing the raw format diff output and skipping merges.
22
23 The command is primarily kept for historical reasons; fingers of
24 many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by
Documentation/gitcli.txt
+2 -2
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
23 A subcommand may take dashed options (which may take their own
24 arguments, e.g. "--max-parents 2") and arguments. You SHOULD
25 give dashed options first and then arguments. Some commands may
26 - accept dashed options after you have already gave non-option
26 + accept dashed options after you have already given non-option
27 arguments (which may make the command ambiguous), but you should
28 not rely on it (because eventually we may find a way to fix
29 these ambiguity by enforcing the "options then args" rule).
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ arguments. Here are the rules:
42 `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter.
43
44 * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors
45 - out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a
45 + out and asks you to disambiguate when ambiguous. E.g. if you have a
46 file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
47 you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
48 disambiguate.
Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt
+1 -1
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ caller is responsible for opening the `hashfile` and writing header
67 information so the file format is identifiable before the chunk-based
68 format begins.
69
70 -Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for write. This
70 +Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for writing. This
71 populates the `chunkfile` with information about the order and size of
72 each chunk to write. Provide a `chunk_write_fn` function pointer to
73 perform the write of the chunk data upon request.
Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt
+3 -3
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ the delta data is a sequence of instructions to reconstruct the object
117 from the base object. If the base object is deltified, it must be
118 converted to canonical form first. Each instruction appends more and
119 more data to the target object until it's complete. There are two
120 -supported instructions so far: one for copy a byte range from the
120 +supported instructions so far: one for copying a byte range from the
121 source object and one for inserting new data embedded in the
122 instruction itself.
123
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ copy. Offset and size are in little-endian order.
137
138 All offset and size bytes are optional. This is to reduce the
139 instruction size when encoding small offsets or sizes. The first seven
140 -bits in the first octet determines which of the next seven octets is
140 +bits in the first octet determine which of the next seven octets is
141 present. If bit zero is set, offset1 is present. If bit one is set
142 offset2 is present and so on.
143
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ converted to 0x10000.
163
164 This is the instruction to construct target object without the base
165 object. The following data is appended to the target object. The first
166 -seven bits of the first octet determines the size of data in
166 +seven bits of the first octet determine the size of data in
167 bytes. The size must be non-zero.
168
169 ==== Reserved instruction
Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
+2 -2
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Submodule operations can be configured using the following mechanisms
78
79 * The command line for those commands that support taking submodules
80 as part of their pathspecs. Most commands have a boolean flag
81 - `--recurse-submodules` which specify whether to recurse into submodules.
81 + `--recurse-submodules` which specifies whether to recurse into submodules.
82 Examples are `grep` and `checkout`.
83 Some commands take enums, such as `fetch` and `push`, where you can
84 specify how submodules are affected.
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ will not be checked out by default; you can instruct `clone` to recurse
274 into submodules. The `init` and `update` subcommands of `git submodule`
275 will maintain submodules checked out and at an appropriate revision in
276 your working tree. Alternatively you can set `submodule.recurse` to have
277 -`checkout` recursing into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also
277 +`checkout` recurse into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also
278 affects other Git commands, see linkgit:git-config[1] for a complete list).
279
280
Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+1 -1
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ following order:
53 `/etc/gitweb-common.conf`),
54
55 * either per-instance configuration file (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl'
56 - in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exists
56 + in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exist
57 then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to `/etc/gitweb.conf`).
58
59 Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier
Documentation/gitweb.txt
+2 -2
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ gitweb - Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories)
8 SYNOPSIS
9 --------
10 To get started with gitweb, run linkgit:git-instaweb[1] from a Git repository.
11 -This would configure and start your web server, and run web browser pointing to
11 +This will configure and start your web server, and run a web browser pointing to
12 gitweb.
13
14
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Gitweb provides a web interface to Git repositories. Its features include:
24 * Viewing the blame/annotation details of any file (if enabled).
25 * Generating RSS and Atom feeds of commits, for any branch.
26 The feeds are auto-discoverable in modern web browsers.
27 -* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and step through
27 +* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and stepping through
28 revisions one at a time, viewing the history of the repository.
29 * Finding commits whose commit messages match a given search term.
30
Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
+1 -1
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ uint32( hash_id )
247 ....
248
249 The header is identical to `version_number=1`, with the 4-byte hash ID
250 -("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) append to the header.
250 +("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) appended to the header.
251
252 For maximum backward compatibility, it is recommended to use version 1 when
253 writing SHA1 reftables.