Fix Documentation typos surrounding the word 'handful'.

Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.

Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 671f533ca30c1fb0ddae8a15f9c586c431c8fef5..43793d75005a7af875a055d377a8ab6a13510682 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
        name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
-       lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.  This is
+       lines, show only a partial prefix.  This is
        independent of --full-index option above, which controls
        the diff-patch output format.  Non default number of
        digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 3d79f05995d28214f68640dd3f693033dff03547..a99b4ef9434f11d46cecbd80cca9548866c1aa48 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ With something like git.git current tree, I get:
        v1.0.4-14-g2414721
 
 i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4,
-but since it has a handful commits on top of that,
+but since it has a few commits on top of that,
 describe has added the number of additional commits ("14") and
 an abbreviated object name for the commit itself ("2414721")
 at the end.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 9f85d60b5fb6d6ae1b4d8c2e65a6131cbe21450b..057a021eb50899ed5fe1ee5a7b6c59e7fc27becf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
-       lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+       lines, show only a partial prefix.
        Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 
 \--::

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 4c7262f1cd82ca8d9ea6be638d23b18d9bba3738..7bf76c92e4b048bcd0fa5261e34e75351c0335f7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
-       lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+       lines, show only a partial prefix.
        Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
 
 --full-name::

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index e4dd5518c81ac98ef3da9cbb1cea4a9e1fe6e62c..7ba5e589d7e824c526482c9707a5c26ac730cc9e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ $ git ls-files --stage
 ------------
 
 In our example of only two files, we did not have unchanged
-files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing, but in real-life
-large projects, only small number of files change in one commit,
-and this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
-fairly quickly, leaving only a handful the real changes in non-zero
+files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing.  But in real-life
+large projects, when only a small number of files change in one commit,
+this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
+fairly quickly, leaving only a handful of real changes in non-zero
 stages.
 
 To look at only non-zero stages, use `\--unmerged` flag:

diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index cfdae1efa2d446e76218df7a2586a26789a151f6..e4d61d5562632401994c63445a3bf46d74a860db 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
 directory to trigger action at certain points.  When
-'git-init' is run, a handful example hooks are copied in the
+'git-init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the
 `hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
 all disabled.  To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample`
 suffix.

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index d214d4bf9d0e539c6bf58ba24dcd12aabbaea1d8..74a1c0c4ba3a03ba02cbbabcf0ee6cff22e4b099 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the kind of task StGIT is designed to do.
 I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core
 GIT tools.
 
-I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
+I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
 wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of
 placing new things in pu first.  At the beginning, the commit
 ancestry graph looked like this:

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 6d66c74cc11e6622892061f8328d04dfe38f87bf..5f21efe40745a98eafff7df67a916b1f1193fae4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 
 --abbrev-commit::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
-       name, show only handful hexdigits prefix.  Non default number of
+       name, show only a partial prefix.  Non default number of
        digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
        diff output, if it is displayed).
 +