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Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
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The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can
mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to
some kind of path". This clarifies things.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jan Krüger authored and Junio C Hamano committed Oct 31, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ few exceptions. Even though...
`ident`
^^^^^^^

When the attribute `ident` is set to a path, git replaces
`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by
When the attribute `ident` is set for a path, git replaces
`$Id$` in the blob object with `$Id:`, followed by the
40-character hexadecimal blob object name, followed by a dollar
sign `$` upon checkout. Any byte sequence that begins with
`$Id:` and ends with `$` in the worktree file is replaced
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