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[PATCH v2] git-reset.txt: clarify documentation

From
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 5, 2019, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20190305233426.GA17789@dev-l>
In-Reply-To
<20190305185423.GA22260@dev-l>

git-reset.txt contained a missing "a" and "wrt". Fix the missing "a" for correctness and replace "wrt" with "with respect to" so that the documentation is not so cryptic.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
---
My mistake, I fired off the email before it was ready.
---
 Documentation/git-reset.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 132f8e55f6..e952b28305 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ working index HEAD target         working index HEAD
 
 `reset --merge` is meant to be used when resetting out of a conflicted
 merge. Any mergy operation guarantees that the working tree file that is
-involved in the merge does not have local change wrt the index before
+involved in the merge does not have a local change with respect to
+the index before
 it starts, and that it writes the result out to the working tree. So if
 we see some difference between the index and the target and also
 between the index and the working tree, then it means that we are not
-- 
2.21.0.260.g8f7229c82f
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