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[PATCH] Documentation/gitweb: trivial English fixes

From
DWDavid Waitzman <djw@bbn.com>
Date
Mar 23, 2012, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID
<4F306653-D561-4ACC-9C5F-E69EB4DDF04E@bbn.com>

Change "it's" to "its" where a possessive is intended. Add two missing "the"s that were noticed by Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>.

Signed-off-by: David Waitzman <djw@bbn.com>
---
 This is a trivial patch to correct the english in the man page.  Ben
 Walton suggested an additional english fix which I have added and
 squashed with my change.  And then I added it again when he pointed
 out I missed something in his original email.
 Documentation/gitweb.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index 605a085..168e8bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ gitweb.
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Gitweb provides a web interface to git repositories.  It's features include:
+Gitweb provides a web interface to git repositories.  Its features include:
 
 * Viewing multiple Git repositories with common root.
 * Browsing every revision of the repository.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ to gitweb.  The list of projects is generated by default by scanning the
 more exact; gitweb is not interested in a working area, and is best suited
 to showing "bare" repositories).
 
-The name of repository in gitweb is path to it's `$GIT_DIR` (it's object
+The name of the repository in gitweb is the path to its `$GIT_DIR` (its object
 database) relative to `$projectroot`.  Therefore the repository $repo can be
 found at "$projectroot/$repo".
 
-- 
1.7.9.GIT
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  1. Documentation/gitweb: trivial English fixesDavid Waitzman, Mar 23, 2012

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