From 6a5d0b0a90789ed92cb87f1b69cfeef2a1db3566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:24:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typos in technical documentation. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/diff-format.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-fast-export.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-fast-import.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/git-http-backend.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 2 +- Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 2 +- Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- 13 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index b71712473..15c7e794f 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] [...]:: git-diff-files [...]:: compares the index and the files on the filesystem. -The "git-diff-tree" command begins its ouput by printing the hash of +The "git-diff-tree" command begins its output by printing the hash of what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output line per changed file. diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt index 6b7b2e549..86b3015c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt @@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ fixed in the "main" branch by commit "F"? The result of such a bisection would be that we would find that H is the first bad commit, when in fact it's B. So that would be wrong! -And yes it's can happen in practice that people working on one branch +And yes it can happen in practice that people working on one branch are not aware that people working on another branch fixed a bug! It could also happen that F fixed more than one bug or that it is a revert of some big development effort that was not ready to be diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt index c24e14b87..98ec6b587 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ unsigned, with 'verbatim', they will be silently exported and with 'warn', they will be exported, but you will see a warning. --tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite):: - Specify how to handle tags whose tagged objectis filtered out. + Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out. Since revisions and files to export can be limited by path, tagged objects may be filtered completely. + diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index ff4022c15..fa7d2fe14 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ fast-forward update, fast-import will skip updating that ref and instead prints a warning message. fast-import will always attempt to update all branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure. -Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but its recommended that +Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but it's recommended that this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using \--force is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository. @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ is always copied into the identity string at the time it is being created by fast-import. There is no way to specify a different time or timezone. + -This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and +This particular format is supplied as it's short to implement and may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit right now, without needing to use a working directory or 'git update-index'. @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ quoting or escaping syntax is supported within ``. Here `` is any of the following: * The name of an existing branch already in fast-import's internal branch - table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, its treated as a SHA-1 + table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, it's treated as a SHA-1 expression. * A mark reference, `:`, where `` is the mark number. @@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ assigned mark. The mark command is optional here as some frontends have chosen to generate the Git SHA-1 for the blob on their own, and feed that -directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than its worth +directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than it's worth however, as marks are inexpensive to store and easy to use. `data` diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt index 07931c687..523882065 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-http-backend.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- A simple CGI program to serve the contents of a Git repository to Git clients accessing the repository over http:// and https:// protocols. -The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protcol +The program supports clients fetching using both the smart HTTP protocol and the backwards-compatible dumb HTTP protocol, as well as clients pushing using the smart HTTP protocol. diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt index 4685a898f..1b5f61aa0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Commands are given by the caller on the helper's standard input, one per line. 'capabilities':: Lists the capabilities of the helper, one per line, ending - with a blank line. Each capability may be preceeded with '*'. + with a blank line. Each capability may be preceded with '*'. This marks them mandatory for git version using the remote helper to understand (unknown mandatory capability is fatal error). diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index e7845d405..fc731525d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ OPTIONS --stop-at-non-option:: Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Lets the option parser stop at the first non-option argument. This can be used to parse sub-commands - that take options themself. + that take options themselves. --sq-quote:: Use 'git rev-parse' in shell quoting mode (see SQ-QUOTE diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 63aa69496..2502531a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ OPTIONS This option is only valid for the update command. Rebase the current branch onto the commit recorded in the superproject. If this option is given, the submodule's HEAD will not - be detached. If a a merge failure prevents this process, you will have + be detached. If a merge failure prevents this process, you will have to resolve these failures with linkgit:git-rebase[1]. If the key `submodule.$name.update` is set to `rebase`, this option is implicit. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index 3ef71179d..6e9baf8b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -233,27 +233,27 @@ endif::git-rev-list[] Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern` is given, limit branches to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', - '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled. + '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. --tags[=pattern]:: Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern` is given, limit tags to ones matching given shell glob. If pattern lacks '?', '*', - or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled. + or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. --remotes[=pattern]:: Pretend as if all the refs in `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes` are listed on the command line as ''. If `pattern`is given, limit remote tracking branches to ones matching given shell glob. - If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled. + If pattern lacks '?', '*', or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. --glob=glob-pattern:: Pretend as if all the refs matching shell glob `glob-pattern` are listed on the command line as ''. Leading 'refs/', is automatically prepended if missing. If pattern lacks '?', '*', - or '[', '/*' at the end is impiled. + or '[', '/*' at the end is implied. ifndef::git-rev-list[] diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index b26c28133..68bf4cad8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The functions above do the following: ENOENT; a diagnostic is printed only if .silent_exec_failure is 0. . Otherwise, the program is run. If it terminates regularly, its exit - code is returned. No diagnistic is printed, even if the exit code is + code is returned. No diagnostic is printed, even if the exit code is non-zero. . If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt index 7950eeeda..9a5cdafa9 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-protocol.txt @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ advertisement list at all, but other refs may still appear. The stream MUST include capability declarations behind a NUL on the first ref. The peeled value of a ref (that is "ref^{}") MUST be immediately after the ref itself, if presented. A conforming server -MUST peel the ref if its an annotated tag. +MUST peel the ref if it's an annotated tag. ---- advertised-refs = (no-refs / list-of-refs) @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ Without either multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed: * upload-pack sends "NAK" on a flush-pkt if no common object has been found yet. If one has been found, and thus an ACK - was already sent, its silent on the flush-pkt. + was already sent, it's silent on the flush-pkt. After the client has gotten enough ACK responses that it can determine that the server has enough information to send an efficient packfile @@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ as common with the server, or the --date-order queue is empty), or the client determines that it wants to give up (in the canonical implementation, this is determined when the client sends 256 'have' lines without getting any of them ACKed by the server - meaning there is nothing in common and -the server should just send all it's objects), then the client will send +the server should just send all of its objects), then the client will send a 'done' command. The 'done' command signals to the server that the client -is ready to receive it's packfile data. +is ready to receive its packfile data. However, the 256 limit *only* turns on in the canonical client implementation if we have received at least one "ACK %s continue" @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ ACK after 'done' if there is at least one common base and multi_ack or multi_ack_detailed is enabled. The server always sends NAK after 'done' if there is no common base found. -Then the server will start sending it's packfile data. +Then the server will start sending its packfile data. ---- server-response = *ack_multi ack / nak diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt index 1892d3eea..fd1a59314 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-capabilities.txt @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ doesn't, as in the following diagram: If the client wants x,y and starts out by saying have F,S, the server doesn't know what F,S is. Eventually the client says "have d" and the server sends "ACK d continue" to let the client know to stop -walking down that line (so don't send c-b-a), but its not done yet, +walking down that line (so don't send c-b-a), but it's not done yet, it needs a base for x. The client keeps going with S-R-Q, until a gets reached, at which point the server has a clear base and it all ends. @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ delete-refs ----------- If the server sends back the 'delete-refs' capability, it means that -it is capable of accepting an zero-id value as the target +it is capable of accepting a zero-id value as the target value of a reference update. It is not sent back by the client, it simply informs the client that it can be sent zero-id values to delete references. diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index b16983668..517daca08 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ the time, you will want to commit your changes before you can merge, and if you don't, then linkgit:git-stash[1] can take these changes away while you're doing the merge, and reapply them afterwards. -If the changes are independant enough, Git will automatically complete +If the changes are independent enough, Git will automatically complete the merge and commit the result (or reuse an existing commit in case of <>, see below). On the other hand, if there are conflicts--for example, if the same file is -- 2.26.2