documentation: wording improvements

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Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Elijah Newren
2023-10-08 06:45:03 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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commit cf6cac2005
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@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ Avoiding runtime penalty
In order to avoid the above runtime penalty, post 1.4.2 Git used
to have a code that made sure the index file
got timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when
there are many young files with the same timestamp as the
resulting index file would otherwise would have by waiting
got a timestamp newer than the youngest files in the index when
there were many young files with the same timestamp as the
resulting index file otherwise would have by waiting
before finishing writing the index file out.
I suspected that in practice the situation where many paths in the