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[PATCH] user-manual.txt: fix a tiny typo.

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Date
Mar 19, 2007, 03:17 UTC
Message-ID
<39141.0089251169$1174274341@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To
<1174274281887-git-send-email->
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>

"file patch" was doubtless intended to be "file path", but "directory name" is clearer.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
---
 Documentation/user-manual.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 0919574..773f65e 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@ If you and maintainer both have accounts on the same machine, then
 then you can just pull changes from each other's repositories
 directly; note that all of the commands (gitlink:git-clone[1],
 git-fetch[1], git-pull[1], etc.) that accept a URL as an argument
-will also accept a local file patch; so, for example, you can
+will also accept a local directory name; so, for example, you can
 use
 
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