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[PATCH] docs: minor grammar fixes for v1.7.9 release notes

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 25, 2012, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID
<20120125222002.GA6309@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Easier to view with --color-words, of course.

I also looked through "git log --first-parent v1.7.8..master" to see if anything had been missed. I think you hit the feature highlights pretty well (I notice you mostly include features and not bug-fixes, which I assume is to keep the list to a readable length).

 Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt |   13 +++++++------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
index f1294b4..95320aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt
@@ -12,19 +12,20 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
 
  * Git uses gettext to translate its most common interface messages
    into the user's language if translations are available and the
-   locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
+   locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop new PO files
    in po/ to add new translations.
 
- * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
+ * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transactions used in
    "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
    external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
    platform native keychain mechanisms.
 
- * The prompted input in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
-   when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask username without echoing
-   back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as you type.
+ * The input prompts in the terminal use our own getpass() replacement
+   when possible. HTTP transactions used to ask for the username without
+   echoing back what was typed, but with this change you will see it as
+   you type.
 
- * The internal of "revert/cherry-pick" has been tweaked to prepare
+ * The internals of "revert/cherry-pick" have been tweaked to prepare
    building more generic "sequencer" on top of the implementation that
    drives them.
 
-- 
1.7.9.rc2.293.gaae2
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