Re: [PATCH] git-pack-objects.txt: fix grammatical errors

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This paragraph might need even more work. Paint away!
> 
>  Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> index a51071e..442018b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
> @@ -190,9 +190,9 @@ self-contained. Use `git index-pack --fix-thin`
>  (see linkgit:git-index-pack[1]) to restore the self-contained property.
>  
>  --delta-base-offset::
> -	A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
> -	either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
> -	stream, but older version of git does not understand the
> +	A packed archive can express the base object of a delta as
> +	either a 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
> +	stream, but older versions of git don't understand the
>  	latter.  By default, 'git pack-objects' only uses the
>  	former format for better compatibility.  This option
>  	allows the command to use the latter format for

This is misleading and not even true anymore if not using pack-objects.  
Most people are using either 'git repack' or even 'git gc', and the 
default is to use this parameter since commit 22c79eab.


Nicolas