Grammar fixes to "merge" and "patch-id" docs

[git.git] / Documentation / merge-strategies.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
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--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES
 
 resolve::
        This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
-       and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+       and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
        algorithm.  It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
        merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
        fast.
 
 recursive::
-       This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
-       algorithm.  When there are more than one common
-       ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+       This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge
+       algorithm.  When there is more than one common
+       ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
        merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
        the reference tree for the 3-way merge.  This has been
        reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive::
        pulling or merging one branch.
 
 octopus::
-       This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
-       complex merge that needs manual resolution.  It is
+       This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do
+       a complex merge that needs manual resolution.  It is
        primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
        heads together.  This is the default merge strategy when
-       pulling or merging more than one branches.
+       pulling or merging more than one branch.
 
 ours::
        This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the