documentation: fix verb tense

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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
index f524af4e899b949bafa3956b0bcc083998f42b70..c8e38a0e5cde3101daa07e7f6d325592b47f34a5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ advice.*::
        detachedHead::
                Advice shown when you used
                linkgit:git-switch[1] or linkgit:git-checkout[1]
-               to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to
+               to move to the detached HEAD state, to instruct how to
                create a local branch after the fact.
        suggestDetachingHead::
                Advice shown when linkgit:git-switch[1] refuses to detach HEAD

diff --git a/Documentation/config/clone.txt b/Documentation/config/clone.txt
index a16b1b6fa343ab69dc63359aaff4d70f2bb3cab9..d037b57f729e5e10549235b6278c123754d0aee8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/clone.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ clone.defaultRemoteName::
        option to linkgit:git-clone[1].
 
 clone.rejectShallow::
-       Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one; this can be overridden by
+       Reject cloning a repository if it is a shallow one; this can be overridden by
        passing the `--reject-shallow` option on the command line. See linkgit:git-clone[1]
 
 clone.filterSubmodules::

diff --git a/Documentation/config/column.txt b/Documentation/config/column.txt
index 76aa2f29dc2108fa20d575c4bc49791bc9c02c96..9f30322362dc8ee729c285bbe487971ef63613f9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/column.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/column.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ column.branch::
        See `column.ui` for details.
 
 column.clean::
-       Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always
+       Specify the layout when listing items in `git clean -i`, which always
        shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details.
 
 column.status::

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clean.txt b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
index 5e1a3d5148c5ebaeb4e9110fc382dbeed5383b2d..69331e3f05a13eed6ffb084e292f8452b241f13c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clean.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clean.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ filter by pattern::
    This shows the files and directories to be deleted and issues an
    "Input ignore patterns>>" prompt. You can input space-separated
    patterns to exclude files and directories from deletion.
-   E.g. "*.c *.h" will excludes files end with ".c" and ".h" from
+   E.g. "*.c *.h" will exclude files ending with ".c" and ".h" from
    deletion. When you are satisfied with the filtered result, press
    ENTER (empty) back to the main menu.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt
index 7cb4b4bda18912c15b00c2482cdd8d9e5323ccbc..ee18a2b7432be305272714d9dad459dc351f0aa6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-help.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -------
 -a::
 --all::
-       Prints all the available commands on the standard output.
+       Print all the available commands on the standard output.
 
 --no-external-commands::
        When used with `--all`, exclude the listing of external "git-*"
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -g::
 --guides::
-       Prints a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.
+       Print a list of the Git concept guides on the standard output.
 
 --user-interfaces::
-       Prints a list of the repository, command and file interfaces
+       Print a list of the repository, command and file interfaces
        documentation on the standard output.
 +
 In-repository file interfaces such as `.git/info/exclude` are

diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
index 5cbb31f33e3d7653435846f8df96737a3e5feba9..ee8c1aa0ca42a5b12348756aa60159c4c006c297 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Shows commit logs and diff output each commit introduces.
 
 New users are encouraged to use linkgit:git-log[1] instead.  The
 `whatchanged` command is essentially the same as linkgit:git-log[1]
-but defaults to show the raw format diff output and to skip merges.
+but defaults to showing the raw format diff output and skipping merges.
 
 The command is primarily kept for historical reasons; fingers of
 many people who learned Git long before `git log` was invented by

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 1819a5a1859c5479064823bd786e98267f7037b5..f0986881bacddc4855119e607a174cd17ff084e7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
     A subcommand may take dashed options (which may take their own
     arguments, e.g. "--max-parents 2") and arguments.  You SHOULD
     give dashed options first and then arguments.  Some commands may
-    accept dashed options after you have already gave non-option
+    accept dashed options after you have already given non-option
     arguments (which may make the command ambiguous), but you should
     not rely on it (because eventually we may find a way to fix
     these ambiguity by enforcing the "options then args" rule).
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ arguments.  Here are the rules:
    `git diff HEAD --` to ask for the latter.
 
  * Without disambiguating `--`, Git makes a reasonable guess, but errors
-   out and asking you to disambiguate when ambiguous.  E.g. if you have a
+   out and asks you to disambiguate when ambiguous.  E.g. if you have a
    file called HEAD in your work tree, `git diff HEAD` is ambiguous, and
    you have to say either `git diff HEAD --` or `git diff -- HEAD` to
    disambiguate.

diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt
index 76ea678398a3f2f11ee534a4902f784cc51c3acb..3315df6201dc964886652c494b2123260de9f434 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitformat-chunk.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ caller is responsible for opening the `hashfile` and writing header
 information so the file format is identifiable before the chunk-based
 format begins.
 
-Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for write. This
+Then, call `add_chunk()` for each chunk that is intended for writing. This
 populates the `chunkfile` with information about the order and size of
 each chunk to write. Provide a `chunk_write_fn` function pointer to
 perform the write of the chunk data upon request.

diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt
index fb3f8fcf56ba00fcb32b9793c4a9faaaeda81f8f..992f9d7d37aff57c508d3a5e798541c3ae07180e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.txt
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ the delta data is a sequence of instructions to reconstruct the object
 from the base object. If the base object is deltified, it must be
 converted to canonical form first. Each instruction appends more and
 more data to the target object until it's complete. There are two
-supported instructions so far: one for copy a byte range from the
+supported instructions so far: one for copying a byte range from the
 source object and one for inserting new data embedded in the
 instruction itself.
 
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ copy. Offset and size are in little-endian order.
 
 All offset and size bytes are optional. This is to reduce the
 instruction size when encoding small offsets or sizes. The first seven
-bits in the first octet determines which of the next seven octets is
+bits in the first octet determine which of the next seven octets is
 present. If bit zero is set, offset1 is present. If bit one is set
 offset2 is present and so on.
 
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ converted to 0x10000.
 
 This is the instruction to construct target object without the base
 object. The following data is appended to the target object. The first
-seven bits of the first octet determines the size of data in
+seven bits of the first octet determine the size of data in
 bytes. The size must be non-zero.
 
 ==== Reserved instruction

diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
index 941858a6ecce88440975f02c2462f6aa8692b0bc..13678ead045adc74fa8bf0af8d88859f996a411b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Submodule operations can be configured using the following mechanisms
 
  * The command line for those commands that support taking submodules
    as part of their pathspecs. Most commands have a boolean flag
-   `--recurse-submodules` which specify whether to recurse into submodules.
+   `--recurse-submodules` which specifies whether to recurse into submodules.
    Examples are `grep` and `checkout`.
    Some commands take enums, such as `fetch` and `push`, where you can
    specify how submodules are affected.
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ will not be checked out by default; you can instruct `clone` to recurse
 into submodules. The `init` and `update` subcommands of `git submodule`
 will maintain submodules checked out and at an appropriate revision in
 your working tree. Alternatively you can set `submodule.recurse` to have
-`checkout` recursing into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also
+`checkout` recurse into submodules (note that `submodule.recurse` also
 affects other Git commands, see linkgit:git-config[1] for a complete list).
 
 

diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
index 34b1d6e224356cd3e9a637d0d5bdbef2f6ee269d..b078fef6f5c6ff09c9db52ee8a3d3945144b6fc1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ following order:
    `/etc/gitweb-common.conf`),
 
  * either per-instance configuration file (defaults to 'gitweb_config.perl'
-   in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exists
+   in the same directory as the installed gitweb), or if it does not exist
    then fallback system-wide configuration file (defaults to `/etc/gitweb.conf`).
 
 Values obtained in later configuration files override values obtained earlier

diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index bb9cbad7f3feaaeee13565be94d2c74e4842e62a..41ce55e266a1982db397ea0f8b682911367bdbcf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ gitweb - Git web interface (web frontend to Git repositories)
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 To get started with gitweb, run linkgit:git-instaweb[1] from a Git repository.
-This would configure and start your web server, and run web browser pointing to
+This will configure and start your web server, and run a web browser pointing to
 gitweb.
 
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Gitweb provides a web interface to Git repositories.  Its features include:
 * Viewing the blame/annotation details of any file (if enabled).
 * Generating RSS and Atom feeds of commits, for any branch.
   The feeds are auto-discoverable in modern web browsers.
-* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and step through
+* Viewing everything that was changed in a revision, and stepping through
   revisions one at a time, viewing the history of the repository.
 * Finding commits whose commit messages match a given search term.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
index 84637f96e77cce030c922becc0a0cf09d338f344..6def498efd5548e812b9c834193eeb0a6cc7487d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ uint32( hash_id )
 ....
 
 The header is identical to `version_number=1`, with the 4-byte hash ID
-("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) append to the header.
+("sha1" for SHA1 and "s256" for SHA-256) appended to the header.
 
 For maximum backward compatibility, it is recommended to use version 1 when
 writing SHA1 reftables.