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A tiny documentation patch

From
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2009, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID
<20090810144419.GB24183@headley>
 Hello,

I noticed a few typos in the git-remote manpage, so I fixed the txt source file and here's the patch.

 Best regards and thank you for Git!
Štěpán Němec
>From 65ae3e5cdb241aaaed96a7aeecffb6d305d0b07c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?=C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n=20N=C4=9Bmec?= <stepnem@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:29:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos in git-remote.txt
---
 Documentation/git-remote.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index 9e2b4ea..0964cee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ multiple branches without grabbing all branches.
 With `-m <master>` option, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/<name>/HEAD` is set
 up to point at remote's `<master>` branch. See also the set-head command.
 +
-In mirror mode, enabled with `\--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
+In mirror mode, enabled with `--mirror`, the refs will not be stored
 in the 'refs/remotes/' namespace, but in 'refs/heads/'.  This option
 only makes sense in bare repositories.  If a remote uses mirror
-mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `\--mirror`
+mode, furthermore, `git push` will always behave as if `--mirror`
 was passed.
 
 'rename'::
@@ -114,14 +114,14 @@ These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository
 referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in
 "remotes/<name>".
 +
-With `--dry-run` option, report what branches will be pruned, but do no
+With `--dry-run` option, report what branches will be pruned, but do not
 actually prune them.
 
 'update'::
 
 Fetch updates for a named set of remotes in the repository as defined by
 remotes.<group>.  If a named group is not specified on the command line,
-the configuration parameter remotes.default will get used; if
+the configuration parameter remotes.default will be used; if
 remotes.default is not defined, all remotes which do not have the
 configuration parameter remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate set to true will
 be updated.  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
-- 
1.6.3.3
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