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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-10-23 13:56:37 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-10-23 13:56:37 -0700
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Merge branch 'en/docfixes'
Documentation typo and grammo fixes. * en/docfixes: (25 commits) documentation: add missing parenthesis documentation: add missing quotes documentation: add missing fullstops documentation: add some commas where they are helpful documentation: fix whitespace issues documentation: fix capitalization documentation: fix punctuation documentation: use clearer prepositions documentation: add missing hyphens documentation: remove unnecessary hyphens documentation: add missing article documentation: fix choice of article documentation: whitespace is already generally plural documentation: fix singular vs. plural documentation: fix verb vs. noun documentation: fix adjective vs. noun documentation: fix verb tense documentation: employ consistent verb tense for a list documentation: fix subject/verb agreement documentation: remove extraneous words ...
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
If the object storage directory is specified via the
`$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` environment variable then the sha1 directories
-are created underneath - otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
+are created underneath; otherwise, the default `$GIT_DIR/objects`
directory is used.
Running 'git init' in an existing repository is safe. It will not
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ DIRECTORY" section below.)
Instead of initializing the repository as a directory to either `$GIT_DIR` or
`./.git/`, create a text file there containing the path to the actual
-repository. This file acts as filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the
+repository. This file acts as a filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the
repository.
+
-If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path.
+If this is a reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified path.
-b <branch-name>::
--initial-branch=<branch-name>::
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ specified.
'group' (or 'true')::
-Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may be not
+Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since the git group may not be
the primary group of all users). This is used to loosen the permissions of an
otherwise safe umask(2) value. Note that the umask still applies to the other
permission bits (e.g. if umask is '0022', using 'group' will not remove read
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Same as 'group', but make the repository readable by all users.
'<perm>' is a 3-digit octal number prefixed with `0` and each file
will have mode '<perm>'. '<perm>' will override users' umask(2)
value (and not only loosen permissions as 'group' and 'all'
-does). '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable, but
+do). '0640' will create a repository which is group-readable, but
not group-writable or accessible to others. '0660' will create a repo
that is readable and writable to the current user and group, but
inaccessible to others (directories and executable files get their