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[PATCH] two doc fixes

From
Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date
Aug 19, 2008, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID
<87ej4kx2k0.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
Here are two patches that have been sitting around for too long:
>From 636a18da43c842ad9655274c679ad93c35109c95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:53:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b116475..c88a2c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ run git diff --check on your changes before you commit.

 (1a) Try to be nice to older C compilers

-We try to support wide range of C compilers to compile
+We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile
 git with. That means that you should not use C99 initializers, even
 if a lot of compilers grok it.

--
1.6.0.9.gae2e487


>From 71413abb8ed3a80315ac9b6109b57a49b53842ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:49:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] reword --full-index description


Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/diff-options.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index cba90fd..1759386 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	--exit-code.

 --full-index::
-	Instead of the first handful characters, show full
-	object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
-	line when generating a patch format output.
+	Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
+	pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
+	line when generating patch format output.

 --binary::
 	In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
--
1.6.0.9.gae2e487
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  1. two doc fixesJim Meyering, Aug 19, 2008

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