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[PATCH 1/4] Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-archive.txt.

From
David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Date
Mar 17, 2009, 06:16 UTC
Message-ID
<1237270577-17261-1-git-send-email-dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
---
 Documentation/git-archive.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 0eeefe0..c1adf59 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
 'git-archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
 given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
-used as modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
+used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
 case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
 used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
 extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ OPTIONS
 	Write the archive to <file> instead of stdout.
 
 <extra>::
-	This can be any options that the archiver backend understand.
+	This can be any options that the archiver backend understands.
 	See next section.
 
 --remote=<repo>::
-	Instead of making a tar archive from local repository,
+	Instead of making a tar archive from the local repository,
 	retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository.
 
 --exec=<git-upload-archive>::
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
 
 	Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
-	latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
+	latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
 	`/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
 git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
-- 
1.6.2.1
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