Fix typos in technical documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ralf Wildenhues committed
Jan 31, 2010 at 14:24 UTC
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Documentation/diff-format.txt
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]::
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git-diff-files [<pattern>...]::
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compares the index and the files on the filesystem.
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-The "git-diff-tree" command begins its ouput by printing the hash of
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+The "git-diff-tree" command begins its output by printing the hash of
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what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output
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line per changed file.
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Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
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@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ fixed in the "main" branch by commit "F"?
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The result of such a bisection would be that we would find that H is
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the first bad commit, when in fact it's B. So that would be wrong!
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-And yes it's can happen in practice that people working on one branch
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+And yes it can happen in practice that people working on one branch
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are not aware that people working on another branch fixed a bug! It
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could also happen that F fixed more than one bug or that it is a
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revert of some big development effort that was not ready to be
Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported
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and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
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--tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
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- Specify how to handle tags whose tagged objectis filtered out.
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+ Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.
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Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path,
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tagged objects may be filtered completely.
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Documentation/git-fast-import.txt
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@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ fast-forward update, fast-import will skip updating that ref and instead
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prints a warning message. fast-import will always attempt to update all
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branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure.
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-Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but its recommended that
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+Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but it's recommended that
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this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using \--force
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is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository.
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@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ is always copied into the identity string at the time it is being
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created by fast-import. There is no way to specify a different time or
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timezone.
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-This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and
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+This particular format is supplied as it's short to implement and
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may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit
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right now, without needing to use a working directory or
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'git update-index'.
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Here `<committish>` is any of the following:
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* The name of an existing branch already in fast-import's internal branch
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- table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, its treated as a SHA-1
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+ table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, it's treated as a SHA-1
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expression.
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* A mark reference, `:<idnum>`, where `<idnum>` is the mark number.
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ assigned mark.
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The mark command is optional here as some frontends have chosen
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to generate the Git SHA-1 for the blob on their own, and feed that
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-directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than its worth
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+directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than it's worth
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however, as marks are inexpensive to store and easy to use.
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`data`
Documentation/git-http-backend.txt
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
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A simple CGI program to serve the contents of a Git repository to Git
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clients accessing the repository over http:// and https:// protocols.
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-The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protcol
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+The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protocol
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and the backwards-compatible dumb HTTP protocol, as well as clients
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pushing using the smart HTTP protocol.
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Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line.
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'capabilities'::
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Lists the capabilities of the helper, one per line, ending
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- with a blank line. Each capability may be preceeded with '*'.
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+ with a blank line. Each capability may be preceded with '*'.
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This marks them mandatory for git version using the remote
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helper to understand (unknown mandatory capability is fatal
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error).
Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
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@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS
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--stop-at-non-option::
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Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Lets the option parser stop at
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the first non-option argument. This can be used to parse sub-commands
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- that take options themself.
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+ that take options themselves.
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Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE
Documentation/git-submodule.txt
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This option is only valid for the update command.
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Rebase the current branch onto the commit recorded in the
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superproject. If this option is given, the submodule's HEAD will not
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- be detached. If a a merge failure prevents this process, you will have
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+ be detached. If a merge failure prevents this process, you will have
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to resolve these failures with linkgit:git-rebase[1].
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If the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `rebase`, this option is
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implicit.
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
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Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` are listed
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on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern` is given, limit
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branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?',
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- '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
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+ '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
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Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are listed
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on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern` is given, limit
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tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
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- or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
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+ or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
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Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes` are listed
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on the command line as '<commit>'. If `pattern`is given, limit
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remote tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob.
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- If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
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+ If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
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Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob `glob-pattern`
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are listed on the command line as '<commit>'. Leading 'refs/',
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is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '*',
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- or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled.
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+ or '[', '/*' at the end is implied.
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ifndef::git-rev-list[]
Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
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- code is returned. No diagnistic is printed, even if the exit code is
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+ code is returned. No diagnostic is printed, even if the exit code is
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. If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the
Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt
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The stream MUST include capability declarations behind a NUL on the
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first ref. The peeled value of a ref (that is "ref^{}") MUST be
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immediately after the ref itself, if presented. A conforming server
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-MUST peel the ref if its an annotated tag.
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+MUST peel the ref if it's an annotated tag.
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@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Without either multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed:
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* upload-pack sends "NAK" on a flush-pkt if no common object
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has been found yet. If one has been found, and thus an ACK
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- was already sent, its silent on the flush-pkt.
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+ was already sent, it's silent on the flush-pkt.
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that the server has enough information to send an efficient packfile
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client determines that it wants to give up (in the canonical implementation,
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this is determined when the client sends 256 'have' lines without getting
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any of them ACKed by the server - meaning there is nothing in common and
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-the server should just send all it's objects), then the client will send
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+the server should just send all of its objects), then the client will send
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a 'done' command. The 'done' command signals to the server that the client
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-is ready to receive it's packfile data.
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Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
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-walking down that line (so don't send c-b-a), but its not done yet,
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+walking down that line (so don't send c-b-a), but it's not done yet,
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value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it
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simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values
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to delete references.
Documentation/user-manual.txt
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the merge and commit the result (or reuse an existing commit in case
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if there are conflicts--for example, if the same file is