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+++ b/git-debrebase.5.pod
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ See L</STITCHING, PSEUDO-MERGES, FFQ RECORD>.
git-debrebase has one primary branch,
the B<interchange branch>.
-This branch is found on Debian contributor's workstations
+This branch is found on Debian contributors' workstations
(typically, a maintainer would call it B<master>),
in the Debian dgit git server as the suite branch (B<dgit/dgit/sid>)
and on other git servers which support Debian work
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ the upstream commits).
The breakwater does not contain any representation of
the delta queue (not even debian/patches).
The part of the breakwater processed by git-debrebase
-is the part since the most reecent B<anchor>,
+is the part since the most recent B<anchor>,
which is usually a special merge generated by git-debrebase.
When working, locally,
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ a representation of the delta queue:
=item Delta queue commits
Zero or more single-parent commits
-contaioning only changes to upstream files.
+containing only changes to upstream files.
=back
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ branch state is also B<rebasing>.
It has the same contents as the laundered state,
except that it may contain,
additionally,
-in B<in any order but after the breakwater>:
+B<in any order but after the breakwater>:
=over
@@ -379,8 +379,8 @@ When ffq-prev is not present,
C<refs/debrebase-last/B> records some ancestor of refs/B,
(usually, the result of last stitch).
This is used for status printing and some error error checks -
-especially for printing guesses what a problem is.
-To determine whether a branch is
+especially for printing guesses about what a problem is.
+To determine whether a branch
is being maintained in git-debrebase form
it is necessary to walk its history.
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ so we can at least detect unsupported merges.
=head1 LEGAL OPERATIONS
-The following basic operations follows from this model
+The following basic operations follow from this model
(refer to the diagram above):
=over
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ so that git log shows the packaging history.)
=item Stitch
Make a pseudomerge,
-whose contributing parent to is the unstitched branch
+whose contributing parent is the unstitched branch
and
whose overwritten parent is ffq-prev,
consuming ffq-prev in the process
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ or perhaps a laundered branch with a quilt patch addition commit.
=item Commit quilt patches
To generate a tree which can be represented as a
-3.0 (quilt) .dsc source packages,
+3.0 (quilt) .dsc source package,
the delta queue must be reified inside the git tree
in B<debian/patches/>.
These patch files can be stripped out and/or regenerated as needed.
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ For these reasons,
it is better to use git-debrebase and
let it choose the base
for your rebase.
-If you do realise you have make this mistake,
+If you do realise you have made this mistake,
it is best to use the reflog to recover to a suitable
good previous state.