Some instances replaced by "handful of", others use
the word "few", a couple get a slight rewording.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Junio,
I wasn't sure that fixing the release notes was important.
I can hit those too if you would like.
jdl
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-ls-files.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 8 ++++----
Documentation/githooks.txt | 2 +-
.../howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/pretty-options.txt | 2 +-
8 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 671f533..43793d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix. This is
+ lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
independent of --full-index option above, which controls
the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 3d79f05..a99b4ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ With something like git.git current tree, I get:
v1.0.4-14-g2414721
i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4,
-but since it has a handful commits on top of that,
+but since it has a few commits on top of that,
describe has added the number of additional commits ("14") and
an abbreviated object name for the commit itself ("2414721")
at the end.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 9f85d60..057a021 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+ lines, show only a partial prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
\--::
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
index 4c7262f..b345f4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-tree.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ OPTIONS
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
- lines, show only handful hexdigits prefix.
+ lines, show only a partal prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
--full-name::
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index e4dd551..7ba5e58 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ $ git ls-files --stage
------------
In our example of only two files, we did not have unchanged
-files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing, but in real-life
-large projects, only small number of files change in one commit,
-and this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
-fairly quickly, leaving only a handful the real changes in non-zero
+files so only 'example' resulted in collapsing. But in real-life
+large projects, when only a small number of files change in one commit,
+this 'collapsing' tends to trivially merge most of the paths
+fairly quickly, leaving only a handful of real changes in non-zero
stages.
To look at only non-zero stages, use `\--unmerged` flag:
diff --git a/Documentation/githooks.txt b/Documentation/githooks.txt
index cfdae1e..e4d61d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/githooks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/githooks.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
Hooks are little scripts you can place in `$GIT_DIR/hooks`
directory to trigger action at certain points. When
-'git-init' is run, a handful example hooks are copied in the
+'git-init' is run, a handful of example hooks are copied into the
`hooks` directory of the new repository, but by default they are
all disabled. To enable a hook, rename it by removing its `.sample`
suffix.
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index d214d4b..74a1c0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the kind of task StGIT is designed to do.
I just have done a simpler one, this time using only the core
GIT tools.
-I had a handful commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
+I had a handful of commits that were ahead of master in pu, and I
wanted to add some documentation bypassing my usual habit of
placing new things in pu first. At the beginning, the commit
ancestry graph looked like this:
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 6d66c74..5f21efe 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
--abbrev-commit::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
- name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
+ name, show only a partial prefix. Non default number of
digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
diff output, if it is displayed).
+
--
1.6.0.4.761.g47577
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