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[PATCH] git-rerere.txt: Clarify ambiguity of the config variable

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jul 28, 2009, 14:42 UTC
Message-ID
<1248792135-3361-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To
<ygetz0x35ja.fsf@phenix.progiciels-bpi.ca>

Use the less ambiguous "set variable foo in order to enable bar" rather than "set variable foo to enable bar" which may trick users into assuming that "enable" is a good value for "foo".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
I know there is no way to misunderstand this if one looks at the whole
sentence, but still I deem it worthwhile to make it easier on the reader.
Patch is against maint (git-rerere.txt does not have any more recent changes).
 Documentation/git-rerere.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index a53c3cd..7dd515b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ on the initial manual merge, and applying previously recorded
 hand resolutions to their corresponding automerge results.
 
 [NOTE]
-You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled to
+You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled in order to
 enable this command.
 
 
-- 
1.6.4.rc3.201.gd9d59
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