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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-12-17 11:36:38 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-12-17 11:36:38 -0800 |
commit | c8394bb46667c059f00433224f09bda8de878128 (patch) | |
tree | 0c504495ce36b4a7d644a5f433ef5548c0aef355 | |
parent | Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-hints-in-coding-guidelines' into maint (diff) | |
parent | Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes (diff) | |
download | tgif-c8394bb46667c059f00433224f09bda8de878128.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'jj/doc-markup-gitcli' into maint
* jj/doc-markup-gitcli:
Documentation/gitcli.txt: fix double quotes
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcli.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index 3146413cce..41bed2983f 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ scripting Git: `git log -1 HEAD` but write `git log -1 HEAD --`; the former will not work if you happen to have a file called `HEAD` in the work tree. - * many commands allow a long option "--option" to be abbreviated + * many commands allow a long option `--option` to be abbreviated only to their unique prefix (e.g. if there is no other option - whose name begins with "opt", you may be able to spell "--opt" to - invoke the "--option" flag), but you should fully spell them out + whose name begins with `opt`, you may be able to spell `--opt` to + invoke the `--option` flag), but you should fully spell them out when writing your scripts; later versions of Git may introduce a - new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. "--optimize", + new option whose name shares the same prefix, e.g. `--optimize`, to make a short prefix that used to be unique no longer unique. @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ prefix of a long option as if it is fully spelled out, but use this with a caution. For example, `git commit --amen` behaves as if you typed `git commit --amend`, but that is true only until a later version of Git introduces another option that shares the same prefix, -e.g `git commit --amenity" option. +e.g. `git commit --amenity` option. Separating argument from the option |