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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitworkflows.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
index 177610e44e..2ed9451358 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitworkflows.txt
@@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ follows.
`git pull <url> <branch>`
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-Occasionally, the maintainer may get merge conflicts when he tries to
-pull changes from downstream. In this case, he can ask downstream to
+Occasionally, the maintainer may get merge conflicts when they try to
+pull changes from downstream. In this case, they can ask downstream to
do the merge and resolve the conflicts themselves (perhaps they will
know better how to resolve them). It is one of the rare cases where
downstream 'should' merge from upstream.