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authorFelipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>2021-06-15 14:11:09 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-06-16 11:25:09 +0900
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doc: avoid using the gender of other people
Using gendered pronouns for an anonymous person applies a gender where none is known and further excludes readers who do not use gendered pronouns. Avoid such examples in the documentation by using "they" or passive voice to avoid the need for a pronoun. Inspired-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ Imagine that you have to rebase what you have already published.
You will have to bypass the "must fast-forward" rule in order to
replace the history you originally published with the rebased history.
If somebody else built on top of your original history while you are
-rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with her
-commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose her work.
+rebasing, the tip of the branch at the remote may advance with their
+commit, and blindly pushing with `--force` will lose their work.
+
This option allows you to say that you expect the history you are
updating is what you rebased and want to replace. If the remote ref