Documentation: spelling fixes

[jc: with wording changes from Jonathan Nieder]

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e75434b3ef2d81fa8dafd552d4b689eb84eea441..e15c6123f4abbeb762d05ac8f2720635b4d35c36 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ advice.*::
                when writing commit messages. Default: true.
        commitBeforeMerge::
                Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
-               merge to avoid overwritting local changes.
+               merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
                Default: true.
        resolveConflict::
                Advices shown by various commands when conflicts
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
        Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
-       that multiple deltafied objects reference.  By storing the
+       that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects.  By storing the
        entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
        to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
        objects multiple times.
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ not necessarily be the current directory.
 am.keepcr::
        If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
        with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will
-       not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overrriden
+       not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
        by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
        See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
 
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
        If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
        attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If
        the attributes force git to treat a file as text,
-       the '-k' mode will be left blank so cvs clients will
+       the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
        treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
        will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
        the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
@@ -1275,7 +1275,9 @@ instaweb.local::
        be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
 
 instaweb.modulepath::
-       The module path for an apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
+       The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
+       instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules.  Only used if httpd
+       is Apache.
 
 instaweb.port::
        The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See

diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
index 86b3015c134938c03a396b9fbcfcd5cd47e96718..efbe3790bb4a0521c954650ad43075f583500c7b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect-lk2009.txt
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ logical change in each commit.
 The smaller the changes in your commit, the most effective "git
 bisect" will be. And you will probably need "git bisect" less in the
 first place, as small changes are easier to review even if they are
-only reviewed by the commiter.
+only reviewed by the committer.
 
 Another good idea is to have good commit messages. They can be very
 helpful to understand why some changes were made.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index c28603ecf58bd065cc8f7c3c4436f1c0f82a7d2e..42fb1f57b21d7c355d3df6be07329c478786a9a7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Usually recording a commit that has the exact same tree as its
        sole parent commit is a mistake, and the command prevents you
        from making such a commit.  This option bypasses the safety, and
-       is primarily for use by foreign scm interface scripts.
+       is primarily for use by foreign SCM interface scripts.
 
 --allow-empty-message::
        Like --allow-empty this command is primarily for use by foreign
-       scm interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an
+       SCM interface scripts. It allows you to create a commit with an
        empty commit message without using plumbing commands like
        linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 8bcd875a677ab6ff91fc4600d541eac4750efce7..608cd63fc359d591e2aafbb8bd2fbae9b868b68b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ ISSUES
 ------
 Problems related to timestamps:
 
- * If timestamps of commits in the cvs repository are not stable enough
+ * If timestamps of commits in the CVS repository are not stable enough
    to be used for ordering commits changes may show up in the wrong
    order.
  * If any files were ever "cvs import"ed more than once (e.g., import of
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Problems related to branches:
 
  * Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported.
  * All files from the branching point are added to a branch even if
-   never added in cvs.
+   never added in CVS.
  * This applies to files added to the source branch *after* a daughter
    branch was created: if previously no commit was made on the daughter
    branch they will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 7004dd2decfb2a9cf82b248aae1f848beaf885cb..f4472c61dbb297d61053ef2e8503ad7c56d06148 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ CRLF Line Ending Conversions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
-which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject
-to crlf conversion on some platforms.
+which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject
+to end-of-line conversion on some platforms.
 
 You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to
 set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr`

diff --git a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
index 6904739a48443ba255b2506ad92c10f91fa61d21..51edeecbe5b546c6fbbbe117f39b51f352cb6bc8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-hash-object.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --no-filters::
        Hash the contents as is, ignoring any input filter that would
-       have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including crlf
+       have been chosen by the attributes mechanism, including the end-of-line
        conversion. If the file is read from standard input then this
        is always implied, unless the --path option is given.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 645f0c17485d35e6696be950fc61f5fdcf3dd14e..a9d287f629ed6a06d021b2ff9e1da328f6f988d3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ Keep changes in working tree while discarding some previous commits::
 Suppose you are working on something and you commit it, and then you
 continue working a bit more, but now you think that what you have in
 your working tree should be in another branch that has nothing to do
-with what you commited previously. You can start a new branch and
+with what you committed previously. You can start a new branch and
 reset it while keeping the changes in your work tree.
 +
 ------------

diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 3cd32d6803874909d671a2d3f48c1d5701ce89cf..eb3d040783e8202f502d05e8b4dc4e3b39736779 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ You may find these things in your git repository (`.git`
 directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or
 `<project>.git` directory for a public 'bare' repository. It is
 also possible to have a working tree where `.git` is a plain
-ascii file containing `gitdir: <path>`, i.e. the path to the
+ASCII file containing `gitdir: <path>`, i.e. the path to the
 real git repository).
 
 objects::

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 1dcd1e7f1ede3382ae992a266f5437fe06f8dc75..289019478d16719e5d2c86b7a17017005bd9a80d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:
 - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 
-For local respositories, also supported by git natively, the following
+For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following
 syntaxes may be used:
 
 - /path/to/repo.git/