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@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ Obviously, endless variations are possible; for example, to see all
commits reachable from some head but not from any tag in the repository:
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-$ gitk ($ git show-ref --heads ) --not $( git show-ref --tags )
+$ gitk $( git show-ref --heads ) --not $( git show-ref --tags )
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(See gitlink:git-rev-parse[1] for explanations of commit-selecting
@@ -1103,12 +1103,12 @@ showing up in the output of "`git status`", etc.
Git therefore provides "exclude patterns" for telling git which files to
actively ignore. Exclude patterns are thoroughly explained in the
-"Exclude Patterns" section of the gitlink:git-ls-files[1] manual page,
-but the heart of the concept is simply a list of files which git should
-ignore. Entries in the list may contain globs to specify multiple files,
-or may be prefixed by "`!`" to explicitly include (un-ignore) a previously
-excluded (ignored) file (i.e. later exclude patterns override earlier ones).
-The following example should illustrate such patterns:
+gitlink:gitignore[5] manual page, but the heart of the concept is simply
+a list of files which git should ignore. Entries in the list may contain
+globs to specify multiple files, or may be prefixed by "`!`" to
+explicitly include (un-ignore) a previously excluded (ignored) file
+(i.e. later exclude patterns override earlier ones). The following
+example should illustrate such patterns:
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# Lines starting with '#' are considered comments.