documentation: wording improvements

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-http-push.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
index 7c6a6dd7f6a7fc9c75bf0ae595b12732d5c17765..8b4a5791c8cf03fd4b61f7ebbf1331ed356096ab 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-push.txt
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ and where it is pushed is determined by using the destination side.
 Without `--force`, the <src> ref is stored at the remote only if
 <dst> does not exist, or <dst> is a proper subset (i.e. an
 ancestor) of <src>.  This check, known as "fast-forward check",
-is performed in order to avoid accidentally overwriting the
-remote ref and lose other peoples' commits from there.
+is performed to avoid accidentally overwriting the
+remote ref and losing other peoples' commits from there.
 
 With `--force`, the fast-forward check is disabled for all refs.