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[PATCH] Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt.

From
David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Date
Mar 26, 2009, 03:44 UTC
Message-ID
<1238039084-4810-1-git-send-email-dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
In-Reply-To
<20090324220201.GM19389@fieldses.org>
These were added by accident in a42dea3.

This patch also rewords the description of how ranges of commits can be skipped.

Signed-off-by: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
---
 Documentation/git-bisect.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index a356a2b..ffc02c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD~3		# try 3 revisions before what
 					# was suggested
 ------------
 
-Then you compile and test the chosen revision. Afterwards you mark
+Then compile and test the chosen revision, and afterwards mark
 the revision as good or bad in the usual manner.
 
 Bisect skip
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ using the "'<commit1>'..'<commit2>'" notation. For example:
 $ git bisect skip v2.5..v2.6
 ------------
 
-This tells the bisect process that no commit between `v2.5` excluded and
-`v2.6` included should be tested.
+This tells the bisect process that no commit after `v2.5`, up to and
+including `v2.6`, should be tested.
 
 Note that if you also want to skip the first commit of the range you
 would issue the command:
-- 
1.6.2.1
Previous: J. Bruce FieldsNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 9 of 11 in “Minor documentation fixes”
  1. David J. MellorMar 23, 2009
  2. 1/5 Documentation: removed some uses of the passive voice in git-bisect.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 23, 2009
  3. 2/5 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 23, 2009
  4. 3/5 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-cat-file.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 23, 2009
  5. 4/5 Documentation: minor grammatical fixes in git-check-attr.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 23, 2009
  6. 5/5 Documentation: minor grammatical fix in git-check-ref-format.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 23, 2009
  7. David J. MellorMar 23, 2009
  8. J. Bruce FieldsMar 24, 2009
  9. Documentation: Remove spurious uses of "you" in git-bisect.txt.David J. Mellor, Mar 26, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2009

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