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[PATCH v4 1/4] Documentation: fix typos and spelling in git-replace documentation

From
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Nov 22, 2009, 06:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20091122065645.4811.96823.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To
<20091122064652.4811.38993.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

This patch fix a missing "s" at the end of an occurence of "--no-replace-objects" and, while at it, it also improves spelling and rendering of the git-replace man page.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-replace.txt |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-replace.txt b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
index 8adc1ef..69f704f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-replace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-replace.txt
@@ -17,31 +17,32 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Adds a 'replace' reference in `.git/refs/replace/`
 
 The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the object that is
-replaced. The content of the replace reference is the SHA1 of the
+replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the
 replacement object.
 
-Unless `-f` is given, the replace reference must not yet exist in
+Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist in
 `.git/refs/replace/` directory.
 
-Replace references will be used by default by all git commands except
-those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and fsck).
+Replacement references will be used by default by all git commands
+except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
+fsck).
 
-It is possible to disable use of replacement refs for any command
-using the --no-replace-objects option just after "git".
+It is possible to disable use of replacement references for any
+command using the `--no-replace-objects` option just after 'git'.
 
-For example if commit "foo" has been replaced by commit "bar":
+For example if commit 'foo' has been replaced by commit 'bar':
 
 ------------------------------------------------
-$ git --no-replace-object cat-file commit foo
+$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file commit foo
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-show information about commit "foo", while:
+shows information about commit 'foo', while:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git cat-file commit foo
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-show information about commit "bar".
+shows information about commit 'bar'.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-- 
1.6.5.1.gaf97d
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  1. 0/4 add new GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variableChristian Couder, Nov 22, 2009
  2. 1/4 Documentation: fix typos and spelling in git-replace documentationChristian Couder, Nov 22, 2009
  3. 2/4 replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variableChristian Couder, Nov 22, 2009
  4. 3/4 gitk: add "--no-replace-objects" optionChristian Couder, Nov 22, 2009
  5. 4/4 Documentation: replace: talk a little bit about GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTSChristian Couder, Nov 22, 2009

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