To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the documentation for submitting a patch!
I tried to follow as best I could, here's my attempt (please advise).
>From e88ad689a7587c11f270a10f191a3b6bc52a90d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Sottile <asott...@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 06:54:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix minor typo in git-diff docs.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Sottile <asott...@umich.edu>
---
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 89cc0f4..43d18a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ endif::git-log[]
the diff between the preimage and `/dev/null`. The resulting patch
is not meant to be applied with `patch` or `git apply`; this is
solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the
- text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lack
+ text after the change. In addition, the output obviously lacks
enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even manually,
hence the name of the option.
+
--
2.7.4
