@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ format.encodeEmailHeaders::
Defaults to true.
format.pretty::
- The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
+ The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command.
See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ uniformly configure the same fsck settings in different circumstances
all three of them must be set to the same values.
+
Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the object names
-list should be sorted. This was never a requirement, the object names
+list should be sorted. This was never a requirement; the object names
could appear in any order, but when reading the list we tracked whether
the list was sorted for the purposes of an internal binary search
implementation, which could save itself some work with an already sorted
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ but not on network-mounted filesystems, NTFS, or FAT32. Other filesystems
may or may not have the needed support; the fsmonitor daemon is not guaranteed
to work with these filesystems and such use is considered experimental.
-By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory, however, if the
+By default, the socket is created in the `.git` directory. However, if the
`.git` directory is on a network-mounted filesystem, it will instead be
created at `$HOME/.git-fsmonitor-*` unless `$HOME` itself is on a
network-mounted filesystem in which case you must set the configuration
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
If the object storage directory is specified via the
`$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable then the sha1 directories
-are created underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
+are created underneath; otherwise, the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
directory is used.
Running 'git init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ OPTIONS
matching an exclude pattern. When showing "other" files
(i.e. when used with '-o'), show only those matched by an
exclude pattern. Standard ignore rules are not automatically
- activated, therefore at least one of the `--exclude*` options
+ activated; therefore, at least one of the `--exclude*` options
is required.
-s::
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ OPTIONS
Show status tags together with filenames. Note that for
scripting purposes, linkgit:git-status[1] `--porcelain` and
linkgit:git-diff-files[1] `--name-status` are almost always
- superior alternatives, and users should look at
+ superior alternatives; users should look at
linkgit:git-status[1] `--short` or linkgit:git-diff[1]
`--name-status` for more user-friendly alternatives.
+