populate-sparsely.sh: explain why the script exits if there is no lock

[config/vcsh.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 93010e2..c862f7d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ a pre-upgrade hook is used to make vcsh repositories use it.
 
 Many git commands (e.g. git-merge, git-checkout) will automatically use the
 information in $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout when dealing with files in the
-git work directory, so generally a calling git-read-tree explicitly is not
+git working tree, so generally a calling git-read-tree explicitly is not
 needed.
 
 However when the content of $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout changes it is
 necessary to call "git read-tree -mu HEAD" to update the content of the
-working directory.
+working tree.