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Fix some documentation typos and grammar

Also suggest user manual mention .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: Michael Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Mike Coleman 2007-02-02 00:25:30 -06:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ name for the state at that point.
Copying repositories
--------------------
git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient and relocatable
git repositories are normally totally self-sufficient and relocatable.
Unlike CVS, for example, there is no separate notion of
"repository" and "working tree". A git repository normally *is* the
working tree, with the local git information hidden in the `.git`
@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ You could do without using any branches at all, by
keeping as many local repositories as you would like to have
branches, and merging between them with `git pull`, just like
you merge between branches. The advantage of this approach is
that it lets you keep set of files for each `branch` checked
that it lets you keep a set of files for each `branch` checked
out and you may find it easier to switch back and forth if you
juggle multiple lines of development simultaneously. Of
course, you will pay the price of more disk usage to hold
@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ differences since stage 2 (i.e. your version).
Publishing your work
--------------------
So we can use somebody else's work from a remote repository; but
So, we can use somebody else's work from a remote repository, but
how can *you* prepare a repository to let other people pull from
it?

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@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ branch name, but this longer name can also be useful. Most
importantly, it is a globally unique name for this commit: so if you
tell somebody else the object name (for example in email), then you are
guaranteed that name will refer to the same commit in their repository
that you it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
that it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
all).
Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ the relationships between these snapshots.
Git provides extremely flexible and fast tools for exploring the
history of a project.
We start with one specialized tool which is useful for finding the
We start with one specialized tool that is useful for finding the
commit that introduced a bug into a project.
How to use bisect to find a regression
@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ dangling commit 13472b7c4b80851a1bc551779171dcb03655e9b5
...
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and watch for output that mentions "dangling commits". You can examine
You can examine
one of those dangling commits with, for example,
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@ -2923,6 +2923,8 @@ Think about how to create a clear chapter dependency graph that will
allow people to get to important topics without necessarily reading
everything in between.
Say something about .gitignore.
Scan Documentation/ for other stuff left out; in particular:
howto's
some of technical/?