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[PATCH] Documentation/git-commit: Typo under --edit

From
ABAnders Granskogen Bjørnstad <andersgb@gmail.com>
Date
May 2, 2013, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID
<1367519056-8889-1-git-send-email-andersgb@gmail.com>
-C takes a commit object, not a file.
Signed-off-by: Anders Granskogen Bjørnstad <andersgb@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-commit.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 9b1be55..8172938 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 -e::
 --edit::
 	The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with
-	`-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the
-	commit log message unmodified.  This option lets you
+	`-m`, and from commit object with `-C` are usually used as
+	the commit log message unmodified. This option lets you
 	further edit the message taken from these sources.
 
 --no-edit::
-- 
1.7.9.5
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