documentation: fix choice of article

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / howto / maintain-git.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
index 29c473e5e04568449497dafe4a90946d0fe34ad5..013014bbef67ac149ea8ebdb3093ed8648b5a469 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Preparing a "merge-fix"
 
 A merge of two topics may not textually conflict but still have
 conflict at the semantic level. A classic example is for one topic
-to rename an variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a
+to rename a variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a
 new use of the variable under its old name. When these two topics
 are merged together, the reference to the variable newly added by
 the latter topic will still use the old name in the result.