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[PATCH] RelNotes: minor fixups before 2.51.1

From
Kkristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date
Oct 15, 2025, 09:48 UTC
Message-ID
<3d36523a1abf82dcb0414fbcdc477db01c399c9d.1760521594.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Grammar and typo fixes. Also change “work it around” to “work around”.
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
---
Notes (series):
    I will send a separate patch to fix the same entries in 2.52.0 if
    this is accepted.
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc
index 6a6049810dc..114288925d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Git 2.51.1 Release Notes
 
 There shouldn't be anything exciting to see here.  This is primarily
 to flush the "do you still use it?" improvements that has landed on
-the master front, together with a handful of low-hanging low-impact
+the master front, together with a handful of low-hanging, low-impact
 fixes that should be safe.
 
 
@@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ Fixes since Git 2.51.0
  * Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's
    name.
 
- * Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution
+ * Update the instructions for using GGG in the MyFirstContribution
    document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git`
    instead of `gitgitgadget/git`.
 
- * Clang-format update to let our control macros formatted the way we
+ * Clang-format update to let our control macros be formatted the way we
    had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without
    space before the parentheses.
 
- * A few places where an size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without
+ * A few places where a size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without
    checking has been updated to use the existing helper function.
 
  * The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ Fixes since Git 2.51.0
    larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected.
 
  * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work
-   very well; serialize their execution to work it around.
+   very well; serialize their execution to work around this problem.
 
- * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectivel enables tracing
+ * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectively enable tracing
    options, so that our tests can continue to work.
 
-Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
+Also contains various documentation updates, code cleanups and minor fixups.

base-commit: dba6e578b68488823490130637c6f4755938c518
-- 
2.51.0
Next: Junio C Hamano
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