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>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 2474745254..784bbf3b0d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
 -m::
 	By default, files recorded in the index but not checked
 	out are reported as deleted.  This flag makes
-	"git-diff-index" say that all non-checked-out files are up
+	`git-diff-index` say that all non-checked-out files are up
 	to date.
 
 Output format
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Cached Mode
 If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask:
 
 	show me the differences between HEAD and the current index
-	contents (the ones I'd write with a "git-write-tree")
+	contents (the ones I'd write using `git-write-tree`)
 
 For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated
 some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
 	git diff-index --cached HEAD
 
 Example: let's say I had renamed `commit.c` to `git-commit.c`, and I had
-done an "git-update-index" to make that effective in the index file.
-"git diff-files" wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file
-matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does:
+done an `update-index` to make that effective in the index file.
+`git diff-files` wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file
+matches my working directory. But doing a `git-diff-index` does:
 
   torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git diff-index --cached HEAD
   -100644 blob    4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74        commit.c
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does:
 
 You can see easily that the above is a rename.
 
-In fact, "git diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
-actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much
+In fact, `git diff-index --cached` *should* always be entirely equivalent to
+actually doing a `git-write-tree` and comparing that. Except this one is much
 nicer for the case where you just want to check where you are.
 
-So doing a "git-diff-index --cached" is basically very useful when you are
+So doing a `git-diff-index --cached` is basically very useful when you are
 asking yourself "what have I already marked for being committed, and
 what's the difference to a previous tree".
 
@@ -82,20 +82,20 @@ Non-cached Mode
 ---------------
 The "non-cached" mode takes a different approach, and is potentially
 the more useful of the two in that what it does can't be emulated with
-a "git-write-tree" + "git-diff-tree". Thus that's the default mode.
+a `git-write-tree` + `git-diff-tree`. Thus that's the default mode.
 The non-cached version asks the question:
 
   show me the differences between HEAD and the currently checked out
   tree - index contents _and_ files that aren't up-to-date
 
 which is obviously a very useful question too, since that tells you what
-you *could* commit. Again, the output matches the "git-diff-tree -r"
+you *could* commit. Again, the output matches the `git-diff-tree -r`
 output to a tee, but with a twist.
 
 The twist is that if some file doesn't match the index, we don't have
 a backing store thing for it, and we use the magic "all-zero" sha1 to
 show that. So let's say that you have edited `kernel/sched.c`, but
-have not actually done a "git-update-index" on it yet - there is no
+have not actually done a `git-update-index` on it yet - there is no
 "object" associated with the new state, and you get:
 
   torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index HEAD
@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ not up-to-date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to
 get the real diff, you need to look at the object in the working directory
 directly rather than do an object-to-object diff.
 
-NOTE: As with other commands of this type, "git-diff-index" does not
+NOTE: As with other commands of this type, `git-diff-index` does not
 actually look at the contents of the file at all. So maybe
 `kernel/sched.c` hasn't actually changed, and it's just that you
 touched it. In either case, it's a note that you need to
-"git-update-index" it to make the index be in sync.
+`git-update-index` it to make the index be in sync.
 
 NOTE: You can have a mixture of files show up as "has been updated"
 and "is still dirty in the working directory" together. You can always