documentation: fix choice of article

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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9273c7f1c6..99affec5a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ was found.  See below for examples.
 Conditional includes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-You can conditionally include a config file from another by setting a
+You can conditionally include a config file from another by setting an
 `includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be
 included.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 65e0b1646e..4b307cb51b 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted
 files.
 +
 However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided, instead of a
-two-line from-file/to-file you get a N+1 line from-file/to-file header,
+two-line from-file/to-file you get an N+1 line from-file/to-file header,
 where N is the number of parents in the merge commit:
 
        --- a/file
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
index 29c473e5e0..013014bbef 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Preparing a "merge-fix"
 
 A merge of two topics may not textually conflict but still have
 conflict at the semantic level. A classic example is for one topic
-to rename an variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a
+to rename a variable and all its uses, while another topic adds a
 new use of the variable under its old name. When these two topics
 are merged together, the reference to the variable newly added by
 the latter topic will still use the old name in the result.
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 335395b727..15c6f2705d 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ environment overrides). See linkgit:git-config[1] for more details.
 With an optional '<ref>' argument, use the ref to find the notes
 to display.  The ref can specify the full refname when it begins
 with `refs/notes/`; when it begins with `notes/`, `refs/` and otherwise
-`refs/notes/` is prefixed to form a full name of the ref.
+`refs/notes/` is prefixed to form the full name of the ref.
 +
 Multiple --notes options can be combined to control which notes are
 being displayed. Examples: "--notes=foo" will show only notes from
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
index 687c58cebc..f761828f10 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Each entry contains the following:
 	** {empty}
 	1-byte XOR-offset: ::
 	    The xor offset used to compress this bitmap. For an entry
-	    in position `x`, a XOR offset of `y` means that the actual
+	    in position `x`, an XOR offset of `y` means that the actual
 	    bitmap representing this commit is composed by XORing the
 	    bitmap for this entry with the bitmap in entry `x-y` (i.e.
 	    the bitmap `y` entries before this one).