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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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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-existing::
--exclude-existing=pattern::
- Make git-show-ref act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
+ Make `git-show-ref` act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
following actions on each:
(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path:
will only match the exact branch called "master".
-If nothing matches, linkgit:git-show-ref[1] will return an error code of 1,
+If nothing matches, `git-show-ref` will return an error code of 1,
and in the case of verification, it will show an error message.
For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which