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[PATCH] Edit user manual for grammar

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 12, 2007, 15:43 UTC
Message-ID
<200706121643.19837.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<588192970706120518p201b52fdi9ed48896278b9f3e@mail.gmail.com>
 - "last-resort" is two words, not a conjoined word, it doesn't require
   the hyphen
 - "method of" is vulgar, "method for" is nicer
 - "recovery" becomes "recovering" from Steve Hoelzer's original version
   of this patch
 - "if you want" is nicer as "if you wish"
 - "you may" should be "you can"; "you may" is "you have permission to"
   rather than "you can"'s "it is possible to"
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
---

My apologies for jumping on your patch, but when I read the context of your change, I couldn't resist fixing some things around it too.

 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 7eaafa8..d62ccd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1527,9 +1527,9 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 Dangling objects are not a problem.  At worst they may take up a little
-extra disk space.  They can sometimes provide a last-resort method of
-recovery lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details.  However, if
-you want, you may remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the --prune
+extra disk space.  They can sometimes provide a last resort method for
+recovering lost work--see <<dangling-objects>> for details.  However, if
+you wish, you can remove them with gitlink:git-prune[1] or the --prune
 option to gitlink:git-gc[1]:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-- 
1.5.2.1.134.gd166e
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  1. Edit user manual for grammer.Steve Hoelzer, Jun 12, 2007
  2. Edit user manual for grammarAndy Parkins, Jun 12, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJun 12, 2007
  4. Andy ParkinsJun 12, 2007
  5. J. Bruce FieldsJun 12, 2007
  6. Andy ParkinsJun 12, 2007
  7. J. Bruce FieldsJun 12, 2007
  8. David KastrupJun 13, 2007
  9. Randal L. SchwartzJun 12, 2007
  10. David KastrupJun 13, 2007
  11. Andy ParkinsJun 13, 2007
  12. Shawn O. PearceJun 14, 2007

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