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diff --git a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt index b6793cf55e..fcda0125af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-archimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-archimport.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-archimport(1) NAME ---- -git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into GIT +git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git SYNOPSIS @@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ incremental imports. MERGES ------ -Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in GIT as well. GIT +Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result -is that GIT will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the +is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the import process does lose some patch-trading metadata. Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch, -GIT will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying +git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches. OPTIONS |