git-status: do not be totally useless in a read-only repository.

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index c6d1451e85aea98a5e3b04465cea4dbc0839f501..c5e9ea8a428415940b04224b3ff902c609c9fc09 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ branch name, but this longer name can also be useful.  Most
 importantly, it is a globally unique name for this commit: so if you
 tell somebody else the object name (for example in email), then you are
 guaranteed that name will refer to the same commit in their repository
-that you it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
+that it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
 all).
 
 Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ if commit X is an ancestor of commit Y.  Equivalently, you could say
 that Y is a descendent of X, or that there is a chain of parents
 leading from commit Y to commit X.
 
-Undestanding history: History diagrams
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Understanding history: History diagrams
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 We will sometimes represent git history using diagrams like the one
 below.  Commits are shown as "o", and the links between them with
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ the relationships between these snapshots.
 Git provides extremely flexible and fast tools for exploring the
 history of a project.
 
-We start with one specialized tool which is useful for finding the
+We start with one specialized tool that is useful for finding the
 commit that introduced a bug into a project.
 
 How to use bisect to find a regression
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ display options.
 
 Note that git log starts with the most recent commit and works
 backwards through the parents; however, since git history can contain
-multiple independant lines of development, the particular order that
+multiple independent lines of development, the particular order that
 commits are listed in may be somewhat arbitrary.
 
 Generating diffs
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ $ git commit
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 and git will prompt you for a commit message and then create the new
-commmit.  Check to make sure it looks like what you expected with
+commit.  Check to make sure it looks like what you expected with
 
 -------------------------------------------------
 $ git show
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ dangling commit 13472b7c4b80851a1bc551779171dcb03655e9b5
 ...
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-and watch for output that mentions "dangling commits".  You can examine
+You can examine
 one of those dangling commits with, for example,
 
 ------------------------------------------------
@@ -2923,11 +2923,13 @@ Think about how to create a clear chapter dependency graph that will
 allow people to get to important topics without necessarily reading
 everything in between.
 
+Say something about .gitignore.
+
 Scan Documentation/ for other stuff left out; in particular:
        howto's
        some of technical/?
        hooks
-       etc.
+       list of commands in gitlink:git[1]
 
 Scan email archives for other stuff left out
 
@@ -2951,7 +2953,9 @@ Include cross-references to the glossary, where appropriate.
 Document shallow clones?  See draft 1.5.0 release notes for some
 documentation.
 
-Add a sectin on working with other version control systems, including
+Add a section on working with other version control systems, including
 CVS, Subversion, and just imports of series of release tarballs.
 
 More details on gitweb?
+
+Write a chapter on using plumbing and writing scripts.