documentation: fix apostrophe usage

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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/index.txt b/Documentation/config/index.txt
index 23c7985..3eff420 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/index.txt
@@ -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::

diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt
index dcd4c87..6308f21 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt
@@ -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::

diff --git a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
index 665419f..0672d99 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
@@ -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.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
index b2a2e80..cd8fe91 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
@@ -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]

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index 81bc23f..363a269 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -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.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt b/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt
index dd4108b..01391cb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitprotocol-pack.txt
@@ -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

diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 95a7390..26bf06d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -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

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
index be58f1b..3f9259c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
@@ -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: