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authorJustin Lebar <jlebar@google.com>2014-03-31 15:11:44 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-03-31 15:16:22 -0700
commita58088abe2011b6f486de8acd54432f6d9bcecfc (patch)
treefdae618dee73d4a349c80321896d4f4a58344c35 /Documentation/howto
parentcee0c2750bb5f1b38f15ef961517e03c2e39c9ec (diff)
downloadgit-a58088abe2011b6f486de8acd54432f6d9bcecfc.tar.gz
Documentation: fix misuses of "nor"
Signed-off-by: Justin Lebar <jlebar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/howto')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
index 19ab604f1f..02cb5f758d 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ You fetch from upstream, but not merge.
$ git fetch upstream
This leaves the updated upstream head in .git/FETCH_HEAD but
-does not touch your .git/HEAD nor .git/refs/heads/master.
+does not touch your .git/HEAD or .git/refs/heads/master.
You run "git rebase" now.
$ git rebase FETCH_HEAD master
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
index acf3e477e5..462255ed5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ where C and D are to fix what was broken in A and B, and you may already
have some other changes on the mainline after W.
If you merge the updated side branch (with D at its tip), none of the
-changes made in A nor B will be in the result, because they were reverted
+changes made in A or B will be in the result, because they were reverted
by W. That is what Alan saw.
Linus explains the situation:
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ with:
$ git revert W
This history would (ignoring possible conflicts between what W and W..Y
-changed) be equivalent to not having W nor Y at all in the history:
+changed) be equivalent to not having W or Y at all in the history:
---o---o---o---M---x---x-------x----
/
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
index 85f69dbac9..149508e13b 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/revert-branch-rebase.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ $ make clean test ;# make sure it did not cause other breakage.
------------------------------------------------
Everything is in the good order. I do not need the temporary branch
-nor tag anymore, so remove them:
+or tag anymore, so remove them:
------------------------------------------------
$ rm -f .git/refs/tags/pu-anchor