Merge branch 'bs/maint-1.6.0-tree-walk-prefix' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 3d79f05995d28214f68640dd3f693033dff03547..b231dbb947791bb4fc5cde552e8c736b3558ca0a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
        Automatically implies --tags.
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
-       Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+       Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
        abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
 
 --candidates=<n>::
@@ -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.