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

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jan 6, 2009, 08:44 UTC
Message-ID: <200901060944.09435.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1231213956-14929-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org>

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

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> @@ -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?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch