documentation: add missing article

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 7f0c950a5f..7ac2e37c0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	the index.  If you want to change the working tree file,
 	you need to unset the bit to tell Git.  This is
 	sometimes helpful when working with a big project on a
-	filesystem that has very slow lstat(2) system call
+	filesystem that has a very slow lstat(2) system call
 	(e.g. cifs).
 +
 Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file
@@ -151,12 +151,12 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.
 	automatically removed with warning messages.
 
 --stdin::
-	Instead of taking list of paths from the command line,
-	read list of paths from the standard input.  Paths are
+	Instead of taking a list of paths from the command line,
+	read a list of paths from the standard input.  Paths are
 	separated by LF (i.e. one path per line) by default.
 
 --verbose::
-        Report what is being added and removed from index.
+	Report what is being added and removed from the index.
 
 --index-version <n>::
 	Write the resulting index out in the named on-disk format version.