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Documentation: fix and clarify grammar in git-merge docs.
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Signed-off-by: Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Dave Peticolas authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 16, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -74,14 +74,14 @@ it happens. In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
report no changes.

[NOTE]
This is a bit of lie. In certain special cases, your index are
allowed to be different from the tree of `HEAD` commit. The most
This is a bit of a lie. In certain special cases, your index is
allowed to be different from the tree of the `HEAD` commit. The most
notable case is when your `HEAD` commit is already ahead of what
is being merged, in which case your index can have arbitrary
difference from your `HEAD` commit. Otherwise, your index entries
are allowed have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
the result of trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
from external source to produce the same result as what you are
differences from your `HEAD` commit. Also, your index entries
may have differences from your `HEAD` commit that match
the result of a trivial merge (e.g. you received the same patch
from an external source to produce the same result as what you are
merging). For example, if a path did not exist in the common
ancestor and your head commit but exists in the tree you are
merging into your repository, and if you already happen to have
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