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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-07-03 00:41:41 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-05 11:24:40 -0700
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manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-`git-file-merge` incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>`
+'git-file-merge' incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>`
to `<other-file>` into `<current-file>`. The result ordinarily goes into
-`<current-file>`. `git-merge-file` is useful for combining separate changes
+`<current-file>`. 'git-merge-file' is useful for combining separate changes
to an original. Suppose `<base-file>` is the original, and both
`<current-file>` and `<other-file>` are modifications of `<base-file>`.
-Then `git-merge-file` combines both changes.
+Then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes.
A conflict occurs if both `<current-file>` and `<other-file>` have changes
-in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, `git-merge-file`
+in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, 'git-merge-file'
normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and
>>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this:
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ the alternatives.
The exit value of this program is negative on error, and the number of
conflicts otherwise. If the merge was clean, the exit value is 0.
-`git-merge-file` is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS `merge`; that is, it
+'git-merge-file' is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS `merge`; that is, it
implements all of RCS merge's functionality which is needed by
linkgit:git[1].