Signed-off-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
---
Just a few grammar glitches that caught my eye while
perusing some man pages.
Documentation/git-merge.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-patch-id.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 14 +++++++-------
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index cc0d30f..427ad90 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ include::merge-strategies.txt[]
If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
-would want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
+want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
CONFIGURATION
-------------
diff --git a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
index 477785e..253fc0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-patch-id.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ IOW, you can use this thing to look for likely duplicate commits.
When dealing with 'git-diff-tree' output, it takes advantage of
the fact that the patch is prefixed with the object name of the
-commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal string. The first
+commit, and outputs two 40-byte hexadecimal strings. The first
string is the patch ID, and the second string is the commit ID.
This can be used to make a mapping from patch ID to commit ID.
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 1276f85..ee7f754 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES
resolve::
This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
- and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+ and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
fast.
recursive::
- This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
- algorithm. When there are more than one common
- ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+ This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge
+ algorithm. When there is more than one common
+ ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive::
pulling or merging one branch.
octopus::
- This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
- complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
+ This resolves the more than two-heads case, but refuses to do
+ a complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
- pulling or merging more than one branches.
+ pulling or merging more than one branch.
ours::
This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
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