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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2005-08-05 17:05:02 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-08-05 23:07:00 -0700
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[PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate it.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 7665946f80..e1be6cc0bc 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ OPTIONS
Merging
-------
-If '-m' is specified, "git-read-tree" can performs 3 kinds of
+If '-m' is specified, "git-read-tree" can perform 3 kinds of
merge, a single tree merge if only 1 tree is given, a
fast-forward merge with 2 trees, or a 3-way merge if 3 trees are
provided.
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ Single Tree Merge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If only 1 tree is specified, git-read-tree operates as if the user did not
specify '-m', except that if the original cache has an entry for a
-given pathname; and the contents of the path matches with the tree
+given pathname, and the contents of the path matches with the tree
being read, the stat info from the cache is used. (In other words, the
-cache's stat()s take precedence over the merged tree's)
+cache's stat()s take precedence over the merged tree's).
That means that if you do a "git-read-tree -m <newtree>" followed by a
"git-checkout-cache -f -u -a", the "git-checkout-cache" only checks out
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ populated. Here is an outline of how the algorithm works:
automatically collapse to "merged" state by git-read-tree.
- a file that has _any_ difference what-so-ever in the three trees
- will stay as separate entries in the index. It's up to "script
+ will stay as separate entries in the index. It's up to "porcelain
policy" to determine how to remove the non-0 stages, and insert a
merged version.