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diff --git a/Documentation/gitweb.txt b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
index 88450589af..c7436098c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitweb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitweb.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ browsed using gitweb itself.
CONFIGURATION
-------------
Various aspects of gitweb's behavior can be controlled through the configuration
-file 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]
+file `gitweb_config.perl` or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See the linkgit:gitweb.conf[5]
for details.
Repositories
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ projects' root" subsection).
our $projectroot = '/path/to/parent/directory';
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-The default value for `$projectroot` is '/pub/git'. You can change it during
+The default value for `$projectroot` is `/pub/git`. You can change it during
building gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECTROOT` build configuration variable.
By default all Git repositories under `$projectroot` are visible and available
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Unnamed repository; edit this file to name it for gitweb.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
from the template during repository creation, usually installed in
-'/usr/share/git-core/templates/'. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo
+`/usr/share/git-core/templates/`. You can use the `gitweb.description` repo
configuration variable, but the file takes precedence.
category (or `gitweb.category`)::
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ in the instructions so they can be included in a future release.
Apache as CGI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Apache must be configured to support CGI scripts in the directory in
-which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is '/var/www/cgi-bin'
+which gitweb is installed. Let's assume that it is `/var/www/cgi-bin`
directory.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ You can use mod_perl with gitweb. You must install Apache::Registry
(for mod_perl 1.x) or ModPerl::Registry (for mod_perl 2.x) to enable
this support.
-Assuming that gitweb is installed to '/var/www/perl', the following
+Assuming that gitweb is installed to `/var/www/perl`, the following
Apache configuration (for mod_perl 2.x) is suitable.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ Apache with FastCGI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gitweb works with Apache and FastCGI. First you need to rename, copy
or symlink gitweb.cgi to gitweb.fcgi. Let's assume that gitweb is
-installed in '/usr/share/gitweb' directory. The following Apache
+installed in `/usr/share/gitweb` directory. The following Apache
configuration is suitable (UNTESTED!)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -503,22 +503,22 @@ repositories, you can configure Apache like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The above configuration expects your public repositories to live under
-'/pub/git' and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`,
+`/pub/git` and will serve them as `http://git.domain.org/dir-under-pub-git`,
both as clonable Git URL and as browseable gitweb interface. If you then
start your linkgit:git-daemon[1] with `--base-path=/pub/git --export-all`
then you can even use the `git://` URL with exactly the same path.
Setting the environment variable `GITWEB_CONFIG` will tell gitweb to use the
-named file (i.e. in this example '/etc/gitweb.conf') as a configuration for
+named file (i.e. in this example `/etc/gitweb.conf`) as a configuration for
gitweb. You don't really need it in above example; it is required only if
your configuration file is in different place than built-in (during
-compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or '/etc/gitweb.conf'. See
+compiling gitweb) 'gitweb_config.perl' or `/etc/gitweb.conf`. See
linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for details, especially information about precedence
rules.
If you use the rewrite rules from the example you *might* also need
something like the following in your gitweb configuration file
-('/etc/gitweb.conf' following example):
+(`/etc/gitweb.conf` following example):
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@stylesheets = ("/some/absolute/path/gitweb.css");
$my_uri = "/";
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ like this:
Here actual project root is passed to gitweb via `GITWEB_PROJECT_ROOT`
environment variable from a web server, so you need to put the following
-line in gitweb configuration file ('/etc/gitweb.conf' in above example):
+line in gitweb configuration file (`/etc/gitweb.conf` in above example):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
$projectroot = $ENV{'GITWEB_PROJECTROOT'} || "/pub/git";
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ referenced by `$per_request_config`;
These configurations enable two things. First, each unix user (`<user>`) of
the server will be able to browse through gitweb Git repositories found in
-'~/public_git/' with the following url:
+`~/public_git/` with the following url:
http://git.example.org/~<user>/
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ If you already use `mod_userdir` in your virtual host or you don't want to
use the \'~' as first character, just comment or remove the second rewrite
rule, and uncomment one of the following according to what you want.
-Second, repositories found in '/pub/scm/' and '/var/git/' will be accessible
+Second, repositories found in `/pub/scm/` and `/var/git/` will be accessible
through `http://git.example.org/scm/` and `http://git.example.org/var/`.
You can add as many project roots as you want by adding rewrite rules like
the third and the fourth.
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ that it consumes and produces URLs in the form
http://git.example.com/project.git/shortlog/sometag
i.e. without 'gitweb.cgi' part, by using a configuration such as the
-following. This configuration assumes that '/var/www/gitweb' is the
+following. This configuration assumes that `/var/www/gitweb` is the
DocumentRoot of your webserver, contains the gitweb.cgi script and
complementary static files (stylesheet, favicon, JavaScript):
@@ -645,9 +645,9 @@ parameter.
`@stylesheets`, `$my_uri` and `$home_link`, but you lose "dumb client"
access to your project .git dirs (described in "Single URL for gitweb and
for fetching" section). A possible workaround for the latter is the
-following: in your project root dir (e.g. '/pub/git') have the projects
-named *without* a .git extension (e.g. '/pub/git/project' instead of
-'/pub/git/project.git') and configure Apache as follows:
+following: in your project root dir (e.g. `/pub/git`) have the projects
+named *without* a .git extension (e.g. `/pub/git/project` instead of
+`/pub/git/project.git`) and configure Apache as follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAlias git.example.com
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ cloned), while
will provide human-friendly gitweb access.
This solution is not 100% bulletproof, in the sense that if some project has
-a named ref (branch, tag) starting with 'git/', then paths such as
+a named ref (branch, tag) starting with `git/`, then paths such as
http://git.example.com/project/command/abranch..git/abranch
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:gitweb.conf[5], linkgit:git-instaweb[1]
-'gitweb/README', 'gitweb/INSTALL'
+`gitweb/README`, `gitweb/INSTALL`
GIT
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