diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt
index 7fdf83f604ae25f6177a3fc832e00c0ff9505ac3..848541a5add8604e52371ca74a5b1ee611f6c085 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.txt
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ on.
   to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
   guess.
 
-* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealilng with
+* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with
   corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are
-  available elsehwere.
+  available elsewhere.
 
 * "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
   subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ on.
 * "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached
   from.
 
-* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decration" to show the
+* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the
   birds-eye-view of the topology of the history.
 
 * "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 220b9371981cb76159e150f1c6d2ab2b973d1f44..8fee2531147357da9df3a77184717af1f0177e5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ gui.fastcopyblame::
 	repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
 
 gui.copyblamethreshold::
-	Specifies the theshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
+	Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
 	detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
 	linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 6fc20b0baf1592c88deecc37636b1c644483616b..7c129cb24f0e1c902a81b996ce84ab7e614079c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Record only the fact that the path will be added later. An entry
 	for the path is placed in the index with no content. This is
 	useful for, among other things, showing the unstaged content of
-	such files with 'git diff' and commiting them with 'git commit
+	such files with 'git diff' and committing them with 'git commit
 	-a'.
 
 --refresh::