Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
index a069f8d9a9a9033e4c7796125e44fad6c1820704..4a8487c1547abc156c8fad9e7cafe4d3c5a535f6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch-pack.txt
@@ -12,14 +12,14 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Usually you would want to use `git-fetch`, which is a
+Usually you would want to use 'git fetch', which is a
 higher level wrapper of this command, instead.
 
-Invokes `git-upload-pack` on a possibly remote repository
+Invokes 'git-upload-pack' on a possibly remote repository
 and asks it to send objects missing from this repository, to
 update the named heads.  The list of commits available locally
-is found out by scanning local $GIT_DIR/refs/ and sent to
-`git-upload-pack` running on the other end.
+is found out by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to
+'git-upload-pack' running on the other end.
 
 This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
 asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not
@@ -33,19 +33,19 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -q::
 --quiet::
-       Pass '-q' flag to `git-unpack-objects`; this makes the
+       Pass '-q' flag to 'git unpack-objects'; this makes the
        cloning process less verbose.
 
 -k::
 --keep::
-       Do not invoke `git-unpack-objects` on received data, but
+       Do not invoke 'git unpack-objects' on received data, but
        create a single packfile out of it instead, and store it
        in the object database. If provided twice then the pack is
        locked against repacking.
 
 --thin::
-       Spend extra cycles to minimize the number of objects to be sent.
-       Use it on slower connection.
+       Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
+       on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
 
 --include-tag::
        If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ OPTIONS
        otherwise determine the tags this option made available.
 
 --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>::
-       Use this to specify the path to `git-upload-pack` on the
+       Use this to specify the path to 'git-upload-pack' on the
        remote side, if is not found on your $PATH.
        Installations of sshd ignores the user's environment
        setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <host>::
        A remote host that houses the repository.  When this
-       part is specified, `git-upload-pack` is invoked via
+       part is specified, 'git-upload-pack' is invoked via
        ssh.
 
 <directory>::