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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-06-30 13:56:34 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-01 17:20:16 -0700
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Documentation formatting and cleanup
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`.
The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
-linkgit:git-ls-files[1] and linkgit:git-read-tree[1], read
+`git-ls-files` and `git-read-tree`, read
`gitignore` patterns specified by command-line options, or from
files specified by command-line options. Higher-level git
-tools, such as linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-add[1],
+tools, such as `git-status` and `git-add`,
use patterns from the sources specified above.
Patterns have the following format: