Merge branch 'bk/maint-cvsexportcommit' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-clone.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 227f092e268497aad9c16cff4d796dabf60401de..cca14d6b5df042fcf48889e5ff00285ffc4c3009 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ OPTIONS
        automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternates to
        obtain objects from the reference repository.  Using
        an already existing repository as an alternate will
-       require less objects to be copied from the repository
+       require fewer objects to be copied from the repository
        being cloned, reducing network and local storage costs.
 
 --quiet::
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --depth <depth>::
        Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
-       specified number of revs.  A shallow repository has
+       specified number of revisions.  A shallow repository has a
        number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
        it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
-       want to only look at near the tip of a large project
-       with a long history, and would want to send in a fixes
+       are only interested in the recent history of a large project
+       with a long history, and would want to send in fixes
        as patches.
 
 <repository>::