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Re: [PATCH] Fix some documentation typos.

From
RWRalf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 18, 2007, 12:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20071218121230.GA15831@ins.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To
<20071218060736.GA24024@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
---
Found some more.  If you haven't pushed yet, please squash this in with
the other patch, thanks.

Cheers, Ralf

 Documentation/git-help.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-init.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git.txt      |    4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index c370ee9..a8ffcbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ line option:
 * "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web',
 
 The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also
-be checked if the 'web' format is choosen (either by command line
+be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line
 option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS
 section above.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt
index 07484a4..e51351d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-init.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is given:
  - 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'): Same as 'group', but make the repository
    readable by all users.
 
-By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastforward is enabled
+By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
 in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
 into it.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index e0f9a44..37235b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ as tags and branch heads.
 
 The object database contains objects of three main types: blobs, which
 hold file data; trees, which point to blobs and other trees to build up
-directory heirarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree
+directory hierarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree
 and some number of parent commits.
 
 The commit, equivalent to what other systems call a "changeset" or
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ efficiency may later be compressed together into "pack files".
 Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in history.  A ref
 may contain the SHA1 name of an object or the name of another ref.  Refs
 with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA1 name of the most
-recent commit (or "head") of a branch under developement.  SHA1 names of
+recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development.  SHA1 names of
 tags of interest are stored under `ref/tags/`.  A special ref named
 `HEAD` contains the name of the currently checked-out branch.
 
-- 
1.5.4.rc0.56.g6fbe
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