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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-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index fedcfa0543..31570b1e27 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Use `git mergetool` to run one of several merge utilities to resolve
-merge conflicts. It is typically run after `git-merge`.
+merge conflicts. It is typically run after 'git-merge'.
If one or more <file> parameters are given, the merge tool program will
be run to resolve differences on each file. If no <file> names are
-specified, `git-mergetool` will run the merge tool program on every file
+specified, 'git-mergetool' will run the merge tool program on every file
with merge conflicts.
OPTIONS
@@ -27,23 +27,23 @@ OPTIONS
Valid merge tools are:
kdiff3, tkdiff, meld, xxdiff, emerge, vimdiff, gvimdiff, ecmerge, and opendiff
+
-If a merge resolution program is not specified, `git-mergetool`
+If a merge resolution program is not specified, 'git-mergetool'
will use the configuration variable `merge.tool`. If the
-configuration variable `merge.tool` is not set, `git-mergetool`
+configuration variable `merge.tool` is not set, 'git-mergetool'
will pick a suitable default.
+
You can explicitly provide a full path to the tool by setting the
configuration variable `mergetool.<tool>.path`. For example, you
can configure the absolute path to kdiff3 by setting
-`mergetool.kdiff3.path`. Otherwise, `git-mergetool` assumes the
+`mergetool.kdiff3.path`. Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' assumes the
tool is available in PATH.
+
Instead of running one of the known merge tool programs
-`git-mergetool` can be customized to run an alternative program
+'git-mergetool' can be customized to run an alternative program
by specifying the command line to invoke in a configration
variable `mergetool.<tool>.cmd`.
+
-When `git-mergetool` is invoked with this tool (either through the
+When 'git-mergetool' is invoked with this tool (either through the
`-t` or `--tool` option or the `merge.tool` configuration
variable) the configured command line will be invoked with `$BASE`
set to the name of a temporary file containing the common base for
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ merge resolution.
If the custom merge tool correctly indicates the success of a
merge resolution with its exit code then the configuration
variable `mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode` can be set to `true`.
-Otherwise, `git-mergetool` will prompt the user to indicate the
+Otherwise, 'git-mergetool' will prompt the user to indicate the
success of the resolution after the custom tool has exited.
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