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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-08-20 05:39:48 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-08-20 14:16:51 -0700 |
| commit | b9190e79134ceea2ed0f4a3d1aa90ce6398858f7 (patch) | |
| tree | ffc6d23d654ad6282f31584ebc0cfa8480aff710 | |
| parent | Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manual (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b9190e79134ceea2ed0f4a3d1aa90ce6398858f7.tar.xz | |
Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses
The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by
rev-list and diff is actually three period characters. If it
gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would
stop readers from copying and pasting it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 66e570113a..f88e9977d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`. + -As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the +As a further special case, you may use `"A\...B"` as a shortcut for the merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 658ff2ff67..020955ff5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ summary:: For a successfully pushed ref, the summary shows the old and new values of the ref in a form suitable for using as an argument to `git log` (this is `<old>..<new>` in most cases, and - `<old>...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates). + `<old>\...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates). + For a failed update, more details are given: + diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt index b4314568f5..b8aa0b999d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ OPTIONS <upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an existing branch name. + -As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the +As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD. diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index cc562a057a..e2237ae4a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ excluded from the output. reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones. When this option is used you cannot specify commits to exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2', - nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used). + nor 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used). + With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons), this causes the output to have two extra lines of information |