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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 01c1af6..92d4007 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ $ git bisect visualize ------------------------------------------------- which will run gitk and label the commit it chose with a marker that -says "bisect". Chose a safe-looking commit nearby, note its commit +says "bisect". Choose a safe-looking commit nearby, note its commit id, and check it out with: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -1988,8 +1988,8 @@ intend to manage the branch. It's also possible for a push to fail in this way when other people have the right to push to the same repository. In that case, the correct -solution is to retry the push after first updating your work by either a -pull or a fetch followed by a rebase; see the +solution is to retry the push after first updating your work: either by a +pull, or by a fetch followed by a rebase; see the <<setting-up-a-shared-repository,next section>> and linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7] for more. @@ -2861,7 +2861,7 @@ There are four different types of objects: "blob", "tree", "commit", and "tag". - A <<def_blob_object,"blob" object>> is used to store file data. -- A <<def_tree_object,"tree" object>> is an object that ties one or more +- A <<def_tree_object,"tree" object>> ties one or more "blob" objects into a directory structure. In addition, a tree object can refer to other tree objects, thus creating a directory hierarchy. - A <<def_commit_object,"commit" object>> ties such directory hierarchies @@ -3036,7 +3036,7 @@ Tag Object A tag object contains an object, object type, tag name, the name of the person ("tagger") who created the tag, and a message, which may contain -a signature, as can be seen using the linkgit:git-cat-file[1]: +a signature, as can be seen using linkgit:git-cat-file[1]: ------------------------------------------------ $ git cat-file tag v1.5.0 @@ -3986,13 +3986,13 @@ $ mv -f hello.c~2 hello.c $ git update-index hello.c ------------------------------------------------- -When a path is in unmerged state, running `git-update-index` for +When a path is in the "unmerged" state, running `git-update-index` for that path tells git to mark the path resolved. The above is the description of a git merge at the lowest level, to help you understand what conceptually happens under the hood. -In practice, nobody, not even git itself, uses three `git-cat-file` -for this. There is `git-merge-index` program that extracts the +In practice, nobody, not even git itself, runs `git-cat-file` three times +for this. There is a `git-merge-index` program that extracts the stages to temporary files and calls a "merge" script on it: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -4061,7 +4061,7 @@ Note that terminology has changed since that revision. For example, the README in that revision uses the word "changeset" to describe what we now call a <<def_commit_object,commit>>. -Also, we do not call it "cache" any more, but "index", however, the +Also, we do not call it "cache" any more, but rather "index"; however, the file is still called `cache.h`. Remark: Not much reason to change it now, especially since there is no good single name for it anyway, because it is basically _the_ header file which is included by _all_ of Git's C sources. |