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-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt b/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt
index e653775bab..b9cb95e82f 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.txt
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Opening a Security Advisory draft
The first step is to https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/new[open
an advisory]. Technically, this is not necessary. However, it is the most
-convenient way to obtain the CVE number and it give us a private repository
+convenient way to obtain the CVE number and it gives us a private repository
associated with it that can be used to collaborate on a fix.
Notifying the Linux distributions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
index d07c6d44e5..013014bbef 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/maintain-git.txt
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ by doing the following:
files in mbox format).
- Write his own patches to address issues raised on the list but
- nobody has stepped up solving. Send it out just like other
+ nobody has stepped up to solve. Send it out just like other
contributors do, and pick them up just like patches from other
contributors (see above).
@@ -411,13 +411,13 @@ 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.
The Meta/Reintegrate script that is used by redo-jch and redo-seen
-scripts implements a crude but usable way to work this issue around.
+scripts implements a crude but usable way to work around this issue.
When the script merges branch $X, it checks if "refs/merge-fix/$X"
exists, and if so, the effect of it is squashed into the result of
the mechanical merge. In other words,
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
index 7af2e52cf3..2cad9b3ca5 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/use-git-daemon.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ How to use git-daemon
=====================
Git can be run in inetd mode and in stand alone mode. But all you want is
-let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server
+to let a coworker pull from you, and therefore need to set up a Git server
real quick, right?
Note that git-daemon is not really chatty at the moment, especially when
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
index a499a94ac2..3bd581ac35 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP12374B54BA370A1E1C6E78AE4E0@CEZ.ICE>
How to use the subtree merge strategy
=====================================
-There are situations where you want to include contents in your project
+There are situations where you want to include content in your project
from an independently developed project. You can just pull from the
other project as long as there are no conflicting paths.