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[PATCH] Documentation: minor cleanups to branch/checkout wording

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 2, 2007, 05:28 UTC
Message-ID
<20070702052820.GA2590@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Change "to made" to "made to", which is a typo. Use "reflog" instead of "ref log", which is used elsewhere throughout the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Documentation/git-branch.txt   |    6 +++---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 9713f90..bb6b57d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ to happen.
 
 With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted.  You may
 specify more than one branch for deletion.  If the branch currently
-has a ref log then the ref log will also be deleted. Use -r together with -d
+has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted. Use -r together with -d
 to delete remote-tracking branches.
 
 
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Delete a branch irrespective of its index status.
 
 -l::
-	Create the branch's ref log.  This activates recording of
-	all changes to made the branch ref, enabling use of date
+	Create the branch's reflog.  This activates recording of
+	all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
 	based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
 
 -f::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index a6571d2..818b720 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	configuration variable.
 
 -l::
-	Create the new branch's ref log.  This activates recording of
-	all changes to made the branch ref, enabling use of date
+	Create the new branch's reflog.  This activates recording of
+	all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
 	based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
 
 -m::
-- 
1.5.2.2.1452.g896f6
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  1. Documentation: minor cleanups to branch/checkout wordingJeff King, Jul 2, 2007

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