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[PATCH] Fix some documentation typos.

From
RWRalf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 18, 2007, 06:07 UTC
Message-ID
<20071218060736.GA24024@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
---
 Documentation/config.txt         |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-help.txt       |    6 +++---
 Documentation/git-rev-list.txt   |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-send-email.txt |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index ce16fc7..75ed4d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ fetch.unpackLimit::
 
 format.numbered::
 	A boolean which can enable sequence numbers in patch subjects.
-	Seting this option to "auto" will enable it only if there is
+	Setting this option to "auto" will enable it only if there is
 	more than one patch.  See --numbered option in
 	gitlink:git-format-patch[1].
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index da3f718..c370ee9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ printed on the standard output.
 
 If a git command is named, a manual page for that command is brought
 up. The 'man' program is used by default for this purpose, but this
-can be overriden by other options or configuration variables.
+can be overridden by other options or configuration variables.
 
 Note that 'git --help ...' is identical as 'git help ...' because the
 former is internally converted into the latter.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 -a|--all::
 	Prints all the available commands on the standard output. This
-	option superseeds any other option.
+	option supersedes any other option.
 
 -i|--info::
 	Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable
 these config variables is set, the 'git-help--browse' helper script
 (called by 'git-help') will pick a suitable default.
 +
-You can explicitly provide a full path to your prefered browser by
+You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
 setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
 'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git-help--browse' assumes the tool
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
index 989fbf3..a03f9fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ limiting may be applied.
 --quiet::
 
 	Don't print anything to standard output.  This form of
-	git-rev-list is primarly meant to allow the caller to
+	git-rev-list is primarily meant to allow the caller to
 	test the exit status to see if a range of objects is fully
 	connected (or not).  It is faster than redirecting stdout
 	to /dev/null as the output does not have to be formatted.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
index 659215a..f0bd285 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ sendemail.identity::
 	'sendemail.<identity>.<item>' will have higher precedence than
 	'sendemail.<item>'. This is useful to declare multiple SMTP
 	identities and to hoist sensitive authentication information
-	out of the repository and into the global configuation file.
+	out of the repository and into the global configuration file.
 
 sendemail.aliasesfile::
 	To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or more
-- 
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