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[PATCH] Fix some typos.

From
RWRalf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date
Jan 7, 2008, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID
<20080107214326.GA15651@ins.uni-bonn.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
---
 Documentation/gitcli.txt                |    2 +-
 Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt    |    6 +++---
 Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index b7dcf9c..07899ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ $ git foo -oArg
 $ git foo -o Arg
 ----------------------------
 
-However, this is *NOT* allowed for switches with an optionnal value, where the
+However, this is *NOT* allowed for switches with an optional value, where the
 'sticked' form must be used:
 ----------------------------
 $ git describe --abbrev HEAD     # correct
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
index 822609b..83b007e 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt
@@ -102,13 +102,13 @@ Notable members are:
 	and copies.
 
 `abbrev`::
-	Number of hexdigits to abbrevate raw format output to.
+	Number of hexdigits to abbreviate raw format output to.
 
 `pickaxe`::
 	A constant string (can and typically does contain newlines to
 	look for a block of text, not just a single line) to filter out
 	the filepairs that do not change the number of strings contained
-	in its preimage and postmage of the diff_queue.
+	in its preimage and postimage of the diff_queue.
 
 `flags`::
 	This is mostly a collection of boolean options that affects the
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ REVERSE_DIFF;;
 
 EXIT_WITH_STATUS;;
 	For communication between the calling program and the options
-	parser; tell the calling program to signal the presense of
+	parser; tell the calling program to signal the presence of
 	difference using program exit code.
 
 HAS_CHANGES;;
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
index a80baa4..aa87756 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Pack file entry: <+
 
   - A table of 4-byte CRC32 values of the packed object data.
     This is new in v2 so compressed data can be copied directly
-    from pack to pack during repacking withough undetected
+    from pack to pack during repacking without undetected
     data corruption.
 
   - A table of 4-byte offset values (in network byte order).
-- 
1.5.4.rc2.17.g257f
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