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diff -rN -u old-darcs-book/en/01-introduction.md new-darcs-book/en/01-introduction.md --- old-darcs-book/en/01-introduction.md 2024-11-23 18:13:12.186624680 +0000 +++ new-darcs-book/en/01-introduction.md 2024-11-23 18:13:12.186624680 +0000 @@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ So, you want to learn version control, or more specifically, you want to learn `darcs`? That's great! I hope this book will give you an interesting perspective -on how to manage your projects and enables you to work with other people all +on how to manage your projects and enable you to work with other people all around the world. I want to encourage you to follow along with the examples I present in this book and play around with them a bit. Things sometimes happen to make a lot more sense when you type them yourself and see things happening right in front of you. If you haven't used any kind of version control before I hope this book empowers and equips you with new tools that help you to manage your -projects and improve your collaborations. If you have using traditional +projects and improve your collaborations. If you have been using traditional centralized version control systems as well as other distributed systems I hope this book gives you a new perspective on how things can be done differently since `darcs` tackles version control in a refreshingly unique way. @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ operating system. Most of the examples in this book happen inside of a shell and the issued -commands prefixed with a `$` symbol while its output isn't prefixed with +commands are prefixed with a `$` symbol while its output isn't prefixed with anything. Here's an example command that only outputs the word `output`. ``` @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ What's version control? ----------------------- -Ever had to write an imported document over an extended period of time? Then you -probably know how this works. You start with `important.txt` and a +Ever had to write an important document over an extended period of time? Then +you probably know how this works. You start with `important.txt` and after a couple of weeks you end up with a folder full of files like this: ``` @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ share those with you. Nifty huh? We say that every party has their own copy of the project's **repository**. That's not always the case, there are so called **centralized version control systems** like `svn` where you only have the most -recent revision of the project our your machine. To access older ones you need +recent revision of the project on your machine. To access older ones you need to be able to access a server. Why `darcs`? @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ ``` "But hey! You might now have the same patches but they are in reverse order? -Doesn't that mean the mine an gimbar's repository are different?", I hear you +Doesn't that mean that mine and gimbar's repository are different?", I hear you say. That's one of the beautiful things about `darcs` and what makes it so fundamentally different from other version control systems, even though the patches have been applied in reverse order, for `darcs` both of our repositories