From: Christian Meder Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:08:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Some typos and light editing of various manpages X-Git-Tag: v0.99.8b~1^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/f73ae1fc5d5308fecf0a4bdbd7312f7f5b00df55 Some typos and light editing of various manpages Typos, light editing and clarifications. Signed-off-by: Christian Meder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt index 7c4dbef008..4361278dab 100644 --- a/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/cvs-migration.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The good news is that most people don't do that, and in fact most sane people think it's a bug in CVS that makes it tag (and check in changes) one file at a time. So most projects you'll ever see will use CVS 'as if' it was sane. In which case you'll find it very easy indeed to -move over to Git. +move over to git. First off: this is not a git tutorial. See link:tutorial.html[Documentation/tutorial.txt] for how git @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ does rename or copy would not show in the output, and if the "o-file.c", it would find the commit that changed the statement when it was in "o-file.c". -NOTE: The current versions of "git-diff-tree -C" is not eager +NOTE: The current version of "git-diff-tree -C" is not eager enough to find copies, and it will miss the fact that a-file.c was created by copying o-file.c unless o-file.c was somehow changed in the same commit. diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt index 6e9fa8cdb7..dacd8fb534 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" are very similar. -These commands all compare two sets of things; what are -compared are different: +These commands all compare two sets of things; what is +compared differs: git-diff-index :: compares the and the files on the filesystem. @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ That is, from the left to the right: . path for "dst"; only exists for C or R. . an LF or a NUL when '-z' option is used, to terminate the record. - is shown as all 0's if new is a file on the filesystem + is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem and it is out of sync with the cache. Example: @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ For a path that is added, removed, or modified, where: -file:: are files GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF can use to read the - contents of , + contents of , -hex:: are the 40-hexdigit SHA1 hashes, -mode:: are the octal representation of the file modes. @@ -121,12 +121,11 @@ The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion, `/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames. + -When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` shows the +When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of the file that rename/copy produces, respectively. -2. It is followed by extended header lines that are one or - more of: +2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines: old mode new mode diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 613a60d601..06500d04b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ Synonym for "-p". -r:: - Look recursively in subdirectories; this flag does not - mean anything to commands other than "git-diff-tree"; - other diff commands always look at all the subdirectories. + Look recursively in subdirectories; only used by "git-diff-tree"; + other diff commands always work recursively. -z:: \0 line termination on output @@ -28,26 +27,26 @@ Detect copies as well as renames. --find-copies-harder:: - By default, -C option finds copies only if the original - file of the copy was modified in the same changeset for - performance reasons. This flag makes the command + For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only + if the original file of the copy was modified in the same + changeset. This flag makes the command inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of copy. This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use it with caution. -l:: -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n - in the number of potential rename/copy targets. This + is the number of potential rename/copy targets. This option prevents rename/copy detection from running if - the number of rename/copy targets exceed the specified + the number of rename/copy targets exceeds the specified number. -S:: - Look for differences that contains the change in . + Look for differences that contain the change in . --pickaxe-all:: When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that - changeset, not just the files that contains the change + changeset, not just the files that contain the change in . -O:: diff --git a/Documentation/diffcore.txt b/Documentation/diffcore.txt index a1f03df8f1..9d20a4ff19 100644 --- a/Documentation/diffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/diffcore.txt @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ diffcore-merge-broken --------------------- This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by -diffcore-break, and were not transformed into rename/copy by +diffcore-break, and not transformed into rename/copy by diffcore-rename, back into a single modification. This always runs when diffcore-break is used. @@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ like these: * -B/60 (the same as above, since diffcore-break defaults to 50%). Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate -creation and deletion patches. This was unnecessary hack and +creation and deletion patches. This was an unnecessary hack and the latest implementation always merges all the broken pairs back into modifications, but the resulting patch output is -formatted differently to still let the reviewing easier for such +formatted differently for easier review in case of such a complete rewrite by showing the entire contents of old version prefixed with '-', followed by the entire contents of new version prefixed with '+'. diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index ae1ea762f5..4a03b4cfc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -A simple wrapper to git-update-index to add files to the cache for people used +A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the cache for people used to do "cvs add". OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-apply.txt b/Documentation/git-apply.txt index 4f7e1195de..8cbbb4b853 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-apply.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-apply.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a GIT index file +Reads supplied diff output and applies it on a git index file and a work tree. OPTIONS diff --git a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt index 5022643ad1..bb543788c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-applymbox.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OPTIONS -q:: Apply patches interactively. The user will be given opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before - attempting to apply patch in each e-mail message. + attempting to apply it. -k:: Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index 6054731741..b6793cf55e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -20,20 +20,23 @@ it will just import it as a regular commit. If it can find it, it will mark it as a merge whenever possible (see discussion below). The script expects you to provide the key roots where it can start the import -from an 'initial import' or 'tag' type of Arch commit. It will follow and import -new branches within the provided roots. +from an 'initial import' or 'tag' type of Arch commit. It will follow and +import new branches within the provided roots. It expects to be dealing with one project only. If it sees -branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case, edit your - parameters to define clearly the scope of the import. +branches that have different roots, it will refuse to run. In that case, +edit your parameters to define clearly the scope of the +import. -`git-archimport` uses `tla` extensively in the background to access the Arch repository. +`git-archimport` uses `tla` extensively in the background to access the +Arch repository. Make sure you have a recent version of `tla` available in the path. `tla` must know about the repositories you pass to `git-archimport`. For the initial import `git-archimport` expects to find itself in an empty directory. To follow the development of a project that uses Arch, rerun -`git-archimport` with the same parameters as the initial import to perform incremental imports. +`git-archimport` with the same parameters as the initial import to perform +incremental imports. MERGES ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt index ede06dac36..39fa665d9d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ During the bisection process, you can say to see the currently remaining suspects in `gitk`. -The good/bad you told the command is logged, and `git bisect +The good/bad input is logged, and `git bisect log` shows what you have done so far. You can truncate its output somewhere and save it in a file, and run diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index a2a0cfb7be..a7121a4c63 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ OPTIONS The name of the branch to create. start-point:: - Where to make the branch; defaults to HEAD. + Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. Author ------ diff --git a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt index 44983b692d..f21a6e06aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cat-file.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS :: Typically this matches the real type of but asking - for a type that can trivially dereferenced from the given + for a type that can trivially be dereferenced from the given is also permitted. An example is to ask for a "tree" with being a commit object that contains it, or to ask for a "blob" with being a tag object that diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index cd5b97d62c..8462e06853 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ OPTIONS Commit to cherry-pick. -r:: - Usuall the command appends which commit was + Usually the command appends which commit was cherry-picked after the original commit message when making a commit. This option, '--replay', causes it to use the original commit message intact. This is useful diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt index 83d17a055f..a7868e53d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone-pack.txt @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ OPTIONS --exec=:: 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 + remote side, if it is not found on your $PATH. + Installations of sshd ignore the user's environment setup scripts for login shells (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed GIT may not be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround suggested is to set diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 895f733648..9aba868fa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS An existing tree object -p :: - Each '-p' indicates a the id of a parent commit object. + Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object. Commit Information