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[PATCH] git-svn: don't confuse editors with an apostrophe

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Mar 31, 2011, 15:02 UTC
Message-ID
<1301583753-2688-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

The quotation mark serving as an apostrophe confuses editors and they think a large part of the rest of the file is a string. Change "you're" to "you are" to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
---
 git-svn.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index a5857c1..fe28f6a 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ Usage: git svn <command> [options] [arguments]\n
 	}
 	print $fd <<"";
 \nGIT_SVN_ID may be set in the environment or via the --id/-i switch to an
-arbitrary identifier if you're tracking multiple SVN branches/repositories in
+arbitrary identifier if you are tracking multiple SVN branches/repositories in
 one git repository and want to keep them separate.  See git-svn(1) for more
 information.
 
-- 
1.7.4.1
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