diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
index 7655ccc..6eff128 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
    logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header.
 
  * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which
-   git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about
+   git itself never did--normal users should not have to worry about
    this) is now deprecated.
 
  * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt
index 752d791..4e4b88a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
  * The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to
    be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are
    contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed
-   result is represented---packing the same set of objects using
+   result is represented--packing the same set of objects using
    different settings (or delta order) would produce a pack with
    different name.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
index e97f2de..0e7482b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bisect.txt
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
 revision will be skipped (see `git bisect skip` above). 125 was chosen
 as the highest sensible value to use for this purpose, because 126 and 127
 are used by POSIX shells to signal specific error status (127 is for
-command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable---these
+command not found, 126 is for command found but not executable--these
 details do not matter, as they are normal errors in the script, as far as
 `bisect run` is concerned).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index e62d9a0..efe56e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 * When `git fetch` is run without specifying what branches
   and/or tags to fetch on the command line, e.g. `git fetch origin`
   or `git fetch`, `remote.<repository>.fetch` values are used as
-  the refspecs---they specify which refs to fetch and which local refs
+  the refspecs--they specify which refs to fetch and which local refs
   to update.  The example above will fetch
   all branches that exist in the `origin` (i.e. any ref that matches
   the left-hand side of the value, `refs/heads/*`) and update the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 1495e34..85a4d7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 If `git push [<repository>]` without any `<refspec>` argument is set to
 update some ref at the destination with `<src>` with
 `remote.<repository>.push` configuration variable, `:<dst>` part can
-be omitted---such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates
+be omitted--such a push will update a ref that `<src>` normally updates
 without any `<refspec>` on the command line.  Otherwise, missing
 `:<dst>` means to update the same ref as the `<src>`.
 +
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index 7392ff6..ade0b0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 
   The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order.  The
   first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the
-  first subtree---let's call this A---of the root level (with its name
+  first subtree--let's call this A--of the root level (with its name
   relative to the root level), followed by the first subtree of A (with
   its name relative to A), ...