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authorLibravatar Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>2020-10-06 22:09:08 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-10-07 09:42:00 -0700
commitef09e7ddf3e77960ea24ea1580439fb725b4063a (patch)
treeb6dc212b56c0a7afaf387054d04fae48649e52af
parentGit 2.29-rc0 (diff)
downloadtgif-ef09e7ddf3e77960ea24ea1580439fb725b4063a.tar.xz
Documentation/config/checkout: replace sq with backticks
The modern style for Git documentation is to use backticks to quote any command-line documenation so that it is typeset in monospace. Replace all single quotes with backticks to conform to this. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/checkout.txt16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
index 6b646813ab..e3684a5459 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
checkout.defaultRemote::
- When you run 'git checkout <something>'
- or 'git switch <something>' and only have one
+ When you run `git checkout <something>`
+ or `git switch <something>` and only have one
remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and
- tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon
- as you have more than one remote with a '<something>'
+ tracking e.g. `origin/<something>`. This stops working as soon
+ as you have more than one remote with a `<something>`
reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a
preferred remote that should always win when it comes to
disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
`origin`.
+
Currently this is used by linkgit:git-switch[1] and
-linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout <something>'
-or 'git switch <something>'
-will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
-and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a
+linkgit:git-checkout[1] when `git checkout <something>`
+or `git switch <something>`
+will checkout the `<something>` branch on another remote,
+and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when `git worktree add` refers to a
remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
commands or functionality in the future.