From ddd4ddef78163a0f01e7a727c69ba8bd4efc07c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Ackermann Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:59:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix some typos and improve wording Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index cc592579fe..6167cd169e 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ of development leading to that point. The best way to see how this works is using the linkgit:gitk[1] command; running gitk now on a Git repository and looking for merge -commits will help understand how the Git organizes history. +commits will help understand how Git organizes history. In the following, we say that commit X is "reachable" from commit Y if commit X is an ancestor of commit Y. Equivalently, you could say @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ e05db0fd4f31dde7005f075a84f96b360d05984b ------------------------------------------------- Or you could recall that the `...` operator selects all commits -contained reachable from either one reference or the other but not +reachable from either one reference or the other but not both; so ------------------------------------------------- @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ You could just visually inspect the commits since e05db0fd: $ gitk e05db0fd.. ------------------------------------------------- -Or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a +or you can use linkgit:git-name-rev[1], which will give the commit a name based on any tag it finds pointing to one of the commit's descendants: @@ -864,8 +864,8 @@ because it outputs only commits that are not reachable from v1.5.0-rc1. As yet another alternative, the linkgit:git-show-branch[1] command lists the commits reachable from its arguments with a display on the left-hand -side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from. So, -you can run something like +side that indicates which arguments that commit is reachable from. +So, if you run something like ------------------------------------------------- $ git show-branch e05db0fd v1.5.0-rc0 v1.5.0-rc1 v1.5.0-rc2 @@ -877,15 +877,15 @@ available ... ------------------------------------------------- -then search for a line that looks like +then a line like ------------------------------------------------- + ++ [e05db0fd] Fix warnings in sha1_file.c - use C99 printf format if available ------------------------------------------------- -Which shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1, and -from v1.5.0-rc2, but not from v1.5.0-rc0. +shows that e05db0fd is reachable from itself, from v1.5.0-rc1, +and from v1.5.0-rc2, and not from v1.5.0-rc0. [[showing-commits-unique-to-a-branch]] Showing commits unique to a given branch @@ -3542,7 +3542,7 @@ with Git 1.5.2 can look up the submodule commits in the repository and manually check them out; earlier versions won't recognize the submodules at all. -To see how submodule support works, create (for example) four example +To see how submodule support works, create four example repositories that can be used later as a submodule: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -3914,7 +3914,7 @@ fact that such a commit brings together ("merges") two or more previous states represented by other commits. In other words, while a "tree" represents a particular directory state -of a working directory, a "commit" represents that state in "time", +of a working directory, a "commit" represents that state in time, and explains how we got there. You create a commit object by giving it the tree that describes the -- 2.11.4.GIT