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authorLibravatar Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>2010-12-03 14:04:17 -0600
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-12-03 15:22:52 -0800
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parentPrepare for 1.7.3.3 (diff)
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Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text
Use the {asterisk} entity to avoid mistreating the asterisks in "(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*)" as delimiters for bold text. From a quick search with 'git grep -e "\*.*\*"', this seems to be the last example of this particular formatting problem. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ With `--rebase`, it runs 'git rebase' instead of 'git merge'.
passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1]. <refspec> can name an
arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even
a collection of refs with corresponding remote tracking branches
-(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*), but usually it is
-the name of a branch in the remote repository.
+(e.g., refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}),
+but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository.
Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the
"remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch