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Documentation: fix typos and spelling in replace documentation

This patch fix a missing "s" at the end of an occurence of
"--no-replace-objects" and, while at it, it also improves spelling
and rendering.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Christian Couder 15 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-replace.txt

@ -17,31 +17,32 @@ DESCRIPTION @@ -17,31 +17,32 @@ DESCRIPTION
Adds a 'replace' reference in `.git/refs/replace/`

The name of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the object that is
replaced. The content of the replace reference is the SHA1 of the
replaced. The content of the 'replace' reference is the SHA1 of the
replacement object.

Unless `-f` is given, the replace reference must not yet exist in
Unless `-f` is given, the 'replace' reference must not yet exist in
`.git/refs/replace/` directory.

Replace references will be used by default by all git commands except
those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and fsck).
Replacement references will be used by default by all git commands
except those doing reachability traversal (prune, pack transfer and
fsck).

It is possible to disable use of replacement refs for any command
using the --no-replace-objects option just after "git".
It is possible to disable use of replacement references for any
command using the `--no-replace-objects` option just after 'git'.

For example if commit "foo" has been replaced by commit "bar":
For example if commit 'foo' has been replaced by commit 'bar':

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$ git --no-replace-object cat-file commit foo
$ git --no-replace-objects cat-file commit foo
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show information about commit "foo", while:
shows information about commit 'foo', while:

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$ git cat-file commit foo
------------------------------------------------

show information about commit "bar".
shows information about commit 'bar'.

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