Re: [PATCH] Documentation/merge-strategies.txt, diff-options: grammar

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 6, 2009, 09:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20090106093842.GA10697@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200901060944.09435.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:44:06AM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

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> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ resolve::
> >  recursive::
> >  	This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
> >  	algorithm.  When there are more than one common
> > -	ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
> > +	ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
> >  	merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
> >  	the reference tree for the 3-way merge.  This has been
> >  	reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
> 
> I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't this be worded
> 
>   When there _is_ more than one common _ancestor_ that ...
> 
> instead?

I am, and yes.

-Peff