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[PATCH] Correct tenses in documentation.

From
william pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 9, 2007, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID
<466ACACC.3070801@gmail.com>
In several of the text messages, the tense of the verb
is inconsistent.  For example, "Add" vs "Creates".  This
patch to the .txt files makes all of the verbs for
the summaries be present tense.  eg, "Creates" becomes
"Create".
---
  Documentation/git-archive.txt |    2 +-
  Documentation/git-clone.txt   |    2 +-
  Documentation/git-prune.txt   |    2 +-
  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 721e035..4da07c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archive(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-archive - Creates an archive of files from a named tree
+git-archive - Create an archive of files from a named tree


  SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 2461c0e..4a5bab5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-clone(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-clone - Clones a repository into a new directory
+git-clone - Clone a repository into a new directory


  SYNOPSIS
diff --git a/Documentation/git-prune.txt b/Documentation/git-prune.txt
index 50ee5bd..0ace233 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-prune.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-prune.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-prune(1)

  NAME
  ----
-git-prune - Prunes all unreachable objects from the object database
+git-prune - Prune all unreachable objects from the object database


  SYNOPSIS
--
1.4.4.4
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