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authorJeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>2014-05-27 19:23:32 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-05-28 10:40:06 -0700
commit3c735e0776e11951631c6b7a181c655f5742011b (patch)
tree42fc4af347e9d479d87bb6e380275e2b9d7700d8
parent4a28f169ad29ba452e0e7bea2583914c10c58322 (diff)
downloadgit-jm/doc-wording-tweaks.tar.gz
Documentation: wording fixes in the user manual and glossaryjm/doc-wording-tweaks
Re-word the section on "Updating a repository with git fetch" in the user manual. Various other minor fixes in the manual and glossary. Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/glossary-content.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt15
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index be0858c188..4e0b971824 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
[[def_alternate_object_database]]alternate object database::
Via the alternates mechanism, a <<def_repository,repository>>
can inherit part of its <<def_object_database,object database>>
- from another object database, which is called "alternate".
+ from another object database, which is called an "alternate".
[[def_bare_repository]]bare repository::
A bare repository is normally an appropriately
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 022e74e616..46aa6bc1a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -416,12 +416,11 @@ REVISIONS" section of linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Updating a repository with git fetch
------------------------------------
-Eventually the developer cloned from will do additional work in her
-repository, creating new commits and advancing the branches to point
-at the new commits.
+After you clone a repository and commit a few changes of your own, you
+may wish to check the original repository for updates.
-The command `git fetch`, with no arguments, will update all of the
-remote-tracking branches to the latest version found in her
+The `git-fetch` command, with no arguments, will update all of the
+remote-tracking branches to the latest version found in the original
repository. It will not touch any of your own branches--not even the
"master" branch that was created for you on clone.
@@ -1811,8 +1810,8 @@ manner.
You can then import these into your mail client and send them by
hand. However, if you have a lot to send at once, you may prefer to
use the linkgit:git-send-email[1] script to automate the process.
-Consult the mailing list for your project first to determine how they
-prefer such patches be handled.
+Consult the mailing list for your project first to determine
+their requirements for submitting patches.
[[importing-patches]]
Importing patches to a project
@@ -2255,7 +2254,7 @@ $ git checkout test && git merge speed-up-spinlocks
It is unlikely that you would have any conflicts here ... but you might if you
spent a while on this step and had also pulled new versions from upstream.
-Some time later when enough time has passed and testing done, you can pull the
+Sometime later when enough time has passed and testing done, you can pull the
same branch into the `release` tree ready to go upstream. This is where you
see the value of keeping each patch (or patch series) in its own branch. It
means that the patches can be moved into the `release` tree in any order.