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[PATCH] Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txt

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2006, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID
<200611021112.45057.andyparkins@gmail.com>
"what you are going to commit is" doesn't need the "is" and does need a comma.

"can trivially see" is an unecessary split infinitive and "easily" is a more appropriate adverb.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-diff-index.txt |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 9cd43f1..2df581c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ If '--cached' is specified, it allows yo
 
 For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated
 some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly
-*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree
+*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree
 object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
 
 	git-diff-index --cached HEAD
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ matches my working directory. But doing
   -100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        commit.c
   +100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        git-commit.c
 
-You can trivially see that the above is a rename.
+You can see easily that the above is a rename.
 
 In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
 actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much
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  1. Minor grammar fixes for git-diff-index.txtAndy Parkins, Nov 2, 2006

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