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@@ -1600,7 +1600,7 @@ dangling tree b24c2473f1fd3d91352a624795be026d64c8841f
You will see informational messages on dangling objects. They are objects
that still exist in the repository but are no longer referenced by any of
your branches, and can (and will) be removed after a while with "gc".
-You can run `git fsck --no-dangling` to supress these messages, and still
+You can run `git fsck --no-dangling` to suppress these messages, and still
view real errors.
[[recovering-lost-changes]]
@@ -1611,7 +1611,7 @@ Recovering lost changes
Reflogs
^^^^^^^
-Say you modify a branch with `linkgit:git-reset[1] --hard`, and then
+Say you modify a branch with +linkgit:git-reset[1] \--hard+, and then
realize that the branch was the only reference you had to that point in
history.
@@ -4207,7 +4207,7 @@ commits one by one with the function `get_revision()`.
If you are interested in more details of the revision walking process,
just have a look at the first implementation of `cmd_log()`; call
-`git show v1.3.0{tilde}155^2{tilde}4` and scroll down to that function (note that you
+`git show v1.3.0~155^2~4` and scroll down to that function (note that you
no longer need to call `setup_pager()` directly).
Nowadays, `git log` is a builtin, which means that it is _contained_ in the
@@ -4270,9 +4270,9 @@ Two things are interesting here:
negative numbers in case of different errors--and 0 on success.
- the variable `sha1` in the function signature of `get_sha1()` is `unsigned
- char {asterisk}`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
+ char *`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
char[20]`. This variable will contain the 160-bit SHA-1 of the given
- commit. Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char {asterisk}`, it
+ commit. Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char *`, it
is the binary representation, as opposed to the ASCII representation in
hex characters, which is passed as `char *`.