Documentation: typofixes
In addition to fixing trivial and obvious typos, be careful about the following points: - Spell ASCII, URL and CRC in ALL CAPS; - Spell Linux as Capitalized; - Do not omit periods in "i.e." and "e.g.". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt
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public repository really point the commits the pusher wanted to,
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without having to "trust" the server.
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- * "git interpret-trailers" is a new filter to programatically edit
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+ * "git interpret-trailers" is a new filter to programmatically edit
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the tail end of the commit log messages.
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* "git help everyday" shows the "Everyday Git in 20 commands or so"
Documentation/config.txt
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default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
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gc.autodetach::
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+ Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
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if the system supports it. Default is true.
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same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
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signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the
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program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
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- code 0, and to generate an ascii-armored detached signature, the
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+ code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
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standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be
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Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
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http.<url>.*::
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- Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some urls.
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+ Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
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For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is
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All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part,
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if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that
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-equivalent urls that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
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-Environment variable settings always override any matches. The urls that are
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+equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
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+Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
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matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
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visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
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Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
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of people. And as there are often many people who depend (sometimes
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critically) on such software, regressions are a really big problem.
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-One such software is the linux kernel. And if we look at the linux
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+One such software is the Linux kernel. And if we look at the Linux
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kernel, we can see that a lot of time and effort is spent to fight
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regressions. The release cycle start with a 2 weeks long merge
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window. Then the first release candidate (rc) version is tagged. And
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time. But this is not the end of the fight yet, as of course it
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continues after the release.
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-And then this is what Ingo Molnar (a well known linux kernel
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+And then this is what Ingo Molnar (a well known Linux kernel
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developer) says about his use of git bisect:
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Documentation/git-clean.txt
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filter by pattern::
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This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
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- "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-seperated
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+ "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated
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patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion.
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E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from
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deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press
Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
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* Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
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If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
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-want to imort, consider using cvs2git:
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+want to import, consider using cvs2git:
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* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
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Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
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-The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password,
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+The format of these files is username followed by the encrypted password,
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for example:
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Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
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* By default The BFG takes full advantage of multi-core machines,
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cleansing commit file-trees in parallel. git-filter-branch cleans
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- commits sequentially (ie in a single-threaded manner), though it
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- _is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallellism,
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+ commits sequentially (i.e. in a single-threaded manner), though it
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+ _is_ possible to write filters that include their own parallelism,
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* The http://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/#examples[command options]
Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
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-git-interpret-trailers - help add stuctured information into commit messages
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+git-interpret-trailers - help add structured information into commit messages
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SYNOPSIS
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By default the new trailer will appear at the end of all the existing
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trailers. If there is no existing trailer, the new trailer will appear
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-after the commit message part of the ouput, and, if there is no line
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+after the commit message part of the output, and, if there is no line
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When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces before and after the
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+inside the token and the value.
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Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many
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rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow the line
Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
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+ accumulated patterns).
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`refs/remotes` when applied to `--branches`, `--tags`, or `--remotes`,
Documentation/git-svn.txt
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+ transports (e.g. svn+ssh://), you must include the username in
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+ the URL, e.g. svn+ssh://foo@svn.bar.com/project
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to the names of remotes if trunk/branches/tags are
Documentation/git-update-index.txt
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split-index mode is already enabled and `--split-index` is
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given again, all changes in $GIT_DIR/index are pushed back to
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the shared index file. This mode is designed for very large
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Documentation/gitattributes.txt
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composed of text characters, is opaque to a human reader. For example,
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Documentation/githooks.txt
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Documentation/glossary-content.txt
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The "magic signature" consists of ASCII symbols that are neither
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Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.txt
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Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
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Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
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Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt
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contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt
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