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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ git-sync is a simple command that pulls a git repository into a local directory.
 It is a perfect "sidecar" container in Kubernetes - it can periodically pull
 files down from a repository so that an application can consume them.
 
-git-sync can pull one time, or on a regular inteval.  It can pull from the HEAD
+git-sync can pull one time, or on a regular interval.  It can pull from the HEAD
 of a branch, or from a git tag, or from a specific git hash.  It will only
 re-pull if the target of the run has changed in the upstream repository.  When
 it re-pulls, it updates the destination directory atomically.  In order to do