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[PATCH] Small grammar fix

From
Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Date
Feb 25, 2013, 05:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20130225052718.GG5688@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>

"Advice" is a mass noun, not a count noun; it's not ordinarily pluralized.

(I've never seen "advices" before, and to double-check that this isn't
an idiosyncrasy of mine I checked the Google Ngram data:
  http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=advice%2Cadvices
which shows "advices" is <1/100 as common as "advice".)
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
 t/t7512-status-help.sh   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e452ff8..dbb2faf 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ advice.*::
 		Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
 		merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
 	resolveConflict::
-		Advices shown by various commands when conflicts
+		Advice shown by various commands when conflicts
 		prevent the operation from being performed.
 	implicitIdentity::
 		Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
diff --git a/t/t7512-status-help.sh b/t/t7512-status-help.sh
index b3f6eb9..95d6510 100755
--- a/t/t7512-status-help.sh
+++ b/t/t7512-status-help.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #		     Grenoble INP Ensimag
 #
 
-test_description='git status advices'
+test_description='git status advice'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
-- 
1.7.11.3
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  1. Small grammar fixGreg Price, Feb 25, 2013

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