remove noise and inaccuracies from git-svn docs

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index a282adb31e336b425c322605f2fafdfc0e27341d..15aebc60623d97053aa14f3e6463d12eb8f60f26 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -504,6 +504,8 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `pascal` suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language.
 
+- `perl` suitable for source code in the Perl language.
+
 - `php` suitable for source code in the PHP language.
 
 - `python` suitable for source code in the Python language.
@@ -630,7 +632,7 @@ Performing a three-way merge
 `merge`
 ^^^^^^^
 
-The attribute `merge` affects how three versions of a file is
+The attribute `merge` affects how three versions of a file are
 merged when a file-level merge is necessary during `git merge`,
 and other commands such as `git revert` and `git cherry-pick`.
 
@@ -644,15 +646,15 @@ Unset::
 
        Take the version from the current branch as the
        tentative merge result, and declare that the merge has
-       conflicts.  This is suitable for binary files that does
+       conflicts.  This is suitable for binary files that do
        not have a well-defined merge semantics.
 
 Unspecified::
 
        By default, this uses the same built-in 3-way merge
-       driver as is the case the `merge` attribute is set.
-       However, `merge.default` configuration variable can name
-       different merge driver to be used for paths to which the
+       driver as is the case when the `merge` attribute is set.
+       However, the `merge.default` configuration variable can name
+       different merge driver to be used with paths for which the
        `merge` attribute is unspecified.
 
 String::