Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index 59c1b021a6c410e1097df21d6d47365aec6689e2..32f0f122e937aab6b248d0ed86fa09854dbe253d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ branch to another, to pretend that you forked the topic branch
 from the latter branch, using `rebase --onto`.
 
 First let's assume your 'topic' is based on branch 'next'.
-For example feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
+For example, a feature developed in 'topic' depends on some
 functionality which is found in 'next'.
 
 ------------
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ functionality which is found in 'next'.
                             o---o---o  topic
 ------------
 
-We would want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master',
-for example because the functionality 'topic' branch depend on
-got merged into more stable 'master' branch, like this:
+We want to make 'topic' forked from branch 'master'; for example,
+because the functionality on which 'topic' depends was merged into the
+more stable 'master' branch. We want our tree to look like this:
 
 ------------
     o---o---o---o---o  master