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[PATCH] Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txt

From
Štěpán Němec <stepan.nemec@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2009, 00:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20090811005207.GE24183@headley>
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
---
I apologize for the previous mail.
Thank you for clarification and guidance.

I did look at some of the other documentation files (and now also grepped the whole directory for `--' and `\--' occurences), but wasn't able to see any rule or consistence in the usage. Whether it is an indication of real inconsistence or just another example of my ignorance I do not know (not now, at least).

The stray backslashes were fixed by setting ASCIIDOC8, thanks again.
Štěpán Němec
 Documentation/git-remote.txt       |    4 ++--
 Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index 9e2b4ea..82a3d29 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -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]).
diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
index 210fde0..6392538 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Given one argument, reads which branch head the given symbolic
 ref refers to and outputs its path, relative to the `.git/`
 directory.  Typically you would give `HEAD` as the <name>
-argument to see on which branch your working tree is on.
+argument to see which branch your working tree is on.

-Give two arguments, create or update a symbolic ref <name> to
+Given two arguments, creates or updates a symbolic ref <name> to
 point at the given branch <ref>.

 A symbolic ref is a regular file that stores a string that
--
1.6.3.3
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  1. Fix typos in git-remote.txt and git-symbolic-ref.txtŠtěpán Němec, Aug 11, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 11, 2009
  3. Thomas RastAug 11, 2009
  4. Wesley J. LandakerAug 12, 2009
  5. Thomas RastAug 12, 2009

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