doc: make the intent of sentence clearer
authorKristoffer Haugsbakk <kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:51:11 +0000 (16:51 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 23:14:01 +0000 (15:14 -0800)
By adding the word "just", which might have been accidentally omitted.

Adding the word "just" makes it clear that the point is to *not* do an
octopus merge simply because you *can* do it. In other words, you
should have a reason for doing it beyond simply having two (seemingly)
independent commits that you need to merge into another branch, since
it's not always the best approach.

The previous sentence made it look more like it was trying to say that
you shouldn't do an octopus merge *because* you can do an octopus merge.
Although this interpretation doesn't make sense and the rest of the
paragraph makes the intended meaning clear, this adjustment should make
the intent of the sentence more immediately clear to the reader.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristoffer.haugsbakk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index 72ed90ca3bcb244ecea9efa50de909d367a5e746..72ca9c1ef1722797638af4c68b707d26489a389d 100644 (file)
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ $ git show-branch
 ++* [master~2] Pretty-print messages.
 ------------
 
-Note that you should not do Octopus because you can.  An octopus
+Note that you should not do Octopus just because you can.  An octopus
 is a valid thing to do and often makes it easier to view the
 commit history if you are merging more than two independent
 changes at the same time.  However, if you have merge conflicts