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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-07-03 05:41:41 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-05 18:24:40 (GMT)
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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-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 6825ae2..0501a87 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -15,16 +15,16 @@ DESCRIPTION
Many git porcelainish commands take mixture of flags
(i.e. parameters that begin with a dash '-') and parameters
-meant for the underlying `git-rev-list` command they use internally
+meant for the underlying 'git-rev-list' command they use internally
and flags and parameters for the other commands they use
-downstream of `git-rev-list`. This command is used to
+downstream of 'git-rev-list'. This command is used to
distinguish between them.
OPTIONS
-------
--parseopt::
- Use `git-rev-parse` in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below).
+ Use 'git-rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below).
--keep-dash-dash::
Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ OPTIONS
--revs-only::
Do not output flags and parameters not meant for
- `git-rev-list` command.
+ 'git-rev-list' command.
--no-revs::
Do not output flags and parameters meant for
- `git-rev-list` command.
+ 'git-rev-list' command.
--flags::
Do not output non-flag parameters.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ OPTIONS
properly quoted for consumption by shell. Useful when
you expect your parameter to contain whitespaces and
newlines (e.g. when using pickaxe `-S` with
- `git-diff-\*`).
+ 'git-diff-\*').
--not::
When showing object names, prefix them with '{caret}' and
@@ -129,12 +129,12 @@ OPTIONS
--since=datestring::
--after=datestring::
Parse the date string, and output the corresponding
- --max-age= parameter for `git-rev-list`.
+ --max-age= parameter for 'git-rev-list'.
--until=datestring::
--before=datestring::
Parse the date string, and output the corresponding
- --min-age= parameter for `git-rev-list`.
+ --min-age= parameter for 'git-rev-list'.
<args>...::
Flags and parameters to be parsed.
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
name the same commit object if there are no other object in
your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
-* An output from `git-describe`; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
* A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ G H I J
SPECIFYING RANGES
-----------------
-History traversing commands such as `git-log` operate on a set
+History traversing commands such as 'git-log' operate on a set
of commits, not just a single commit. To these commands,
specifying a single revision with the notation described in the
previous section means the set of commits reachable from that
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Here are a handful of examples:
PARSEOPT
--------
-In `--parseopt` mode, `git-rev-parse` helps massaging options to bring to shell
+In `--parseopt` mode, 'git-rev-parse' helps massaging options to bring to shell
scripts the same facilities C builtins have. It works as an option normalizer
(e.g. splits single switches aggregate values), a bit like `getopt(1)` does.
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ usage on the standard error stream, and exits with code 129.
Input Format
~~~~~~~~~~~~
-`git-rev-parse --parseopt` input format is fully text based. It has two parts,
+'git-rev-parse --parseopt' input format is fully text based. It has two parts,
separated by a line that contains only `--`. The lines before the separator
(should be more than one) are used for the usage.
The lines after the separator describe the options.