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[PATCH] Documentation: Expand a couple of abbreviations

From
Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Date
Mar 3, 2009, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID
<1236108562-31469-2-git-send-email-mike@abacus.co.uk>
In-Reply-To
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These may not be obvious to non-native English speakers
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
---
 Documentation/git-am.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/gitk.txt   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index ff307eb..75081d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
 It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
 a one line text.
 
-The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates
+The body of the message (in other words, after a blank line that terminates
 RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines
 that are different from those of the mail header, to override
 the values of these fields.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitk.txt b/Documentation/gitk.txt
index bd005bc..cf465cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitk.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ frequently used options.
 <path>...::
 
 	Limit commits to the ones touching files in the given paths. Note, to
-	avoid ambiguity wrt. revision names use "--" to separate the paths
+	avoid ambiguity with respect to revision names use "--" to separate the paths
 	from any preceding options.
 
 Examples
-- 
1.6.0.2.229.g1293c.dirty
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