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diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index e0f9a4490c..37235b993d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ as tags and branch heads. The object database contains objects of three main types: blobs, which hold file data; trees, which point to blobs and other trees to build up -directory heirarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree +directory hierarchies; and commits, which each reference a single tree and some number of parent commits. The commit, equivalent to what other systems call a "changeset" or @@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ efficiency may later be compressed together into "pack files". Named pointers called refs mark interesting points in history. A ref may contain the SHA1 name of an object or the name of another ref. Refs with names beginning `ref/head/` contain the SHA1 name of the most -recent commit (or "head") of a branch under developement. SHA1 names of +recent commit (or "head") of a branch under development. SHA1 names of tags of interest are stored under `ref/tags/`. A special ref named `HEAD` contains the name of the currently checked-out branch. |