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[PATCH 3-4/9 v2] Documentation: clarify mergeoptions description

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2009, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20091009185114.GA3610@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To
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Sounds better this way, at least to my ears. ("The syntax and supported options of git merge" is a plural noun. "the same" instead of "equal" sounds less technical and seems to convey the meaning better here.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
Sean Estabrooks wrote:
> P.S.  Patches 3 and 4 in this series would be better as a single patch.
Good idea.  Here's a squashed version.
 Documentation/config.txt    |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-merge.txt |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index be0b8ca..cd17814 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ branch.<name>.merge::
 
 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
 	Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
-	supported options are equal to that of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
+	supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
 	option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
 	supported.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 354e9d9..6ffd4b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ include::merge-config.txt[]
 
 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
 	Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
-	supported options are equal to that of 'git-merge', but option values
-	containing whitespace characters are currently not supported.
+	supported options are the same as those of 'git-merge', but option
+	values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported.
 
 HOW MERGE WORKS
 ---------------
-- 
1.6.5.rc1.199.g596ec
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  5. 4/9 Documentation: say "the same" instead of "equal"Jonathan Nieder, Oct 9, 2009
  6. 4/9 Documentation: clarify mergeoptions descriptionJonathan Nieder, Oct 9, 2009
  7. 5/9 Documentation: clone: clarify discussion of initial branchJonathan Nieder, Oct 9, 2009
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  16. 8/9 Documentation: clarify "working tree" definitionJonathan Nieder, Oct 9, 2009
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