documentation: wording improvements

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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

6 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
index d44ada98e7..6c127b5ddd 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-simple-ipc.txt
@@ -102,4 +102,4 @@ stateless request, receive an application-specific
 response, and disconnect.  It is a one round trip facility for
 querying the server.  The Simple-IPC routines hide the socket,
 named pipe, and thread pool details and allow the application
-layer to focus on the application at hand.
+layer to focus on the task at hand.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
index c2e652b71a..687c58cebc 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ result in an empty bitmap (no bits set).
 
     * N entries with compressed bitmaps, one for each indexed commit
 +
-Where `N` is the total amount of entries in this bitmap index.
+Where `N` is the total number of entries in this bitmap index.
 Each entry contains the following:
 
 	** {empty}
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt b/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt
index 47c9b6183c..91a5eb26ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/parallel-checkout.txt
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ quite straightforward: for each parallel-eligible entry, the main
 process must remove all files that prevent this entry from being written
 (before enqueueing it). This includes any non-directory file in the
 leading path of the entry. Later, when a worker gets assigned the entry,
-it looks again for the non-directories files and for an already existing
+it looks again for the non-directory files and for an already existing
 file at the entry's path. If any of these checks finds something, the
 worker knows that there was a path collision.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
index 92fcee2bff..b01cff6912 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/partial-clone.txt
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ Future Work
 - Improve the way to specify the order in which promisor remotes are
   tried.
 +
-For example this could allow to specify explicitly something like:
+For example this could allow specifying explicitly something like:
 "When fetching from this remote, I want to use these promisor remotes
 in this order, though, when pushing or fetching to that remote, I want
 to use those promisor remotes in that order."
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
index ceda4bbfda..783e87e6aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/racy-git.txt
@@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ Avoiding runtime penalty
 
 In order to avoid the above runtime penalty, post 1.4.2 Git used
 to have a code that made sure the index file
-got timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when
-there are many young files with the same timestamp as the
-resulting index file would otherwise would have by waiting
+got a timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when
+there were many young files with the same timestamp as the
+resulting index file otherwise would have by waiting
 before finishing writing the index file out.
 
 I suspected that in practice the situation where many paths in the
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
index 6a67cc4174..d7d066d876 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Varint encoding
 Varint encoding is identical to the ofs-delta encoding method used
 within pack files.
 
-Decoder works such as:
+Decoder works as follows:
 
 ....
 val = buf[ptr] & 0x7f