@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ index.threads::
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the index.
This is meant to reduce index load time on multiprocessor machines.
Specifying 0 or 'true' will cause Git to auto-detect the number of
- CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or
+ CPUs and set the number of threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or
'false' will disable multithreading. Defaults to 'true'.
index.version::
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ pack.threads::
warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
is however multiplied by the number of threads.
- Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
+ Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPUs
and set the number of threads accordingly.
pack.indexVersion::
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore::
a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
- to the submodules work tree and
+ to the submodule's work tree and
takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
+Reads a tag's contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
This command is mostly equivalent to linkgit:git-hash-object[1]
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ will be staged (unless --cached or -n are used).
A submodule is considered up to date when the HEAD is the same as
recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked
-files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree.
+files that aren't ignored are present in the submodule's work tree.
Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work
tree from being removed.
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ an absolute path in the remote filesystem.
v
ssh user@example.com "git-upload-pack '/project.git'"
-In a "user@host:path" format URI, its relative to the user's home
+In a "user@host:path" format URI, it's relative to the user's home
directory, because the Git client will run:
git clone user@example.com:project.git
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ refspec (or `--force`).
Unlike when pushing with linkgit:git-push[1], any updates outside of
`refs/{tags,heads}/*` will be accepted without `+` in the refspec (or
`--force`), whether that's swapping e.g. a tree object for a blob, or
-a commit for another commit that's doesn't have the previous commit as
+a commit for another commit that doesn't have the previous commit as
an ancestor etc.
+
Unlike when pushing with linkgit:git-push[1], there is no
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ examples would both result in the following normalized conflict:
Sorting hunks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-As before, lets imagine that a common ancestor had a file with line A
+As before, let's imagine that a common ancestor had a file with line A
its early part, and line X in its late part. And then four branches
are forked that do these things: