documentation: wording improvements

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

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 6bab201d37..98526f2beb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ structure for the named tree, and writes it out to the standard
 output.  If <prefix> is specified it is
 prepended to the filenames in the archive.
 
-'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when
-given a commit ID or tag ID.  In the first case the current time is
-used as the modification time of each file in the archive.  In the latter
-case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is
-used instead.  Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global
-extended pax header if the tar format is used; it can be extracted
-using 'git get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file
-comment.
+'git archive' behaves differently when given a tree ID as opposed to a
+commit ID or tag ID. When a tree ID is provided, the current time is
+used as the modification time of each file in the archive. On the
+other hand, when a commit ID or tag ID is provided, the commit time as
+recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead.
+Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header
+if the tar format is used; it can be extracted using 'git
+get-tar-commit-id'. In ZIP files it is stored as a file comment.
 
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