Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-diff-index.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 5d2096a4c67e07a697f7d57b67aa1900697b406c..7bd262cefd68efe84ff0c405af5eabcdc6f01be8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask:
 
 For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated
 some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly
-*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree
+*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree
 object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
 
        git-diff-index --cached HEAD
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does:
   -100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        commit.c
   +100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        git-commit.c
 
-You can trivially see that the above is a rename.
+You can see easily that the above is a rename.
 
 In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
 actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much
 nicer for the case where you just want to check where you are.
 
 So doing a "git-diff-index --cached" is basically very useful when you are
-asking yourself "what have I already marked for being committed, and 
+asking yourself "what have I already marked for being committed, and
 what's the difference to a previous tree".
 
 Non-cached Mode
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ have not actually done a "git-update-index" on it yet - there is no
   torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git-diff-index HEAD
   *100644->100664 blob    7476bb......->000000......      kernel/sched.c
 
-ie it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is
+i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is
 not up-to-date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to
 get the real diff, you need to look at the object in the working directory
 directly rather than do an object-to-object diff.
@@ -130,4 +130,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-