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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ You've now initialized the working directory--you may notice a new
directory created, named ".git".
Next, tell git to take a snapshot of the contents of all files under the
-current directory (note the '.'), with `git-add`:
+current directory (note the '.'), with 'git-add':
------------------------------------------------
$ git add .
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ $ git add .
This snapshot is now stored in a temporary staging area which git calls
the "index". You can permanently store the contents of the index in the
-repository with `git-commit`:
+repository with 'git-commit':
------------------------------------------------
$ git commit
@@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ $ git add file1 file2 file3
------------------------------------------------
You are now ready to commit. You can see what is about to be committed
-using `git-diff` with the --cached option:
+using 'git-diff' with the --cached option:
------------------------------------------------
$ git diff --cached
------------------------------------------------
-(Without --cached, `git-diff` will show you any changes that
+(Without --cached, 'git-diff' will show you any changes that
you've made but not yet added to the index.) You can also get a brief
-summary of the situation with `git-status`:
+summary of the situation with 'git-status':
------------------------------------------------
$ git status
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ $ git commit
This will again prompt you for a message describing the change, and then
record a new version of the project.
-Alternatively, instead of running `git-add` beforehand, you can use
+Alternatively, instead of running 'git-add' beforehand, you can use
------------------------------------------------
$ git commit -a
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Git tracks content not files
Many revision control systems provide an `add` command that tells the
system to start tracking changes to a new file. Git's `add` command
-does something simpler and more powerful: `git-add` is used both for new
+does something simpler and more powerful: 'git-add' is used both for new
and newly modified files, and in both cases it takes a snapshot of the
given files and stages that content in the index, ready for inclusion in
the next commit.
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ $ git remote add bob /home/bob/myrepo
------------------------------------------------
With this, Alice can perform the first operation alone using the
-`git-fetch` command without merging them with her own branch,
+'git-fetch' command without merging them with her own branch,
using:
-------------------------------------
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ $ git fetch bob
-------------------------------------
Unlike the longhand form, when Alice fetches from Bob using a
-remote repository shorthand set up with `git-remote`, what was
+remote repository shorthand set up with 'git-remote', what was
fetched is stored in a remote tracking branch, in this case
`bob/master`. So after this:
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ $ git config --get remote.origin.url
/home/alice/project
-------------------------------------
-(The complete configuration created by `git-clone` is visible using
+(The complete configuration created by 'git-clone' is visible using
`git config -l`, and the linkgit:git-config[1] man page
explains the meaning of each option.)
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ Exploring history
-----------------
Git history is represented as a series of interrelated commits. We
-have already seen that the `git-log` command can list those commits.
+have already seen that the 'git-log' command can list those commits.
Note that first line of each git log entry also gives a name for the
commit:
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Date: Tue May 16 17:18:22 2006 -0700
merge-base: Clarify the comments on post processing.
-------------------------------------
-We can give this name to `git-show` to see the details about this
+We can give this name to 'git-show' to see the details about this
commit.
-------------------------------------
@@ -469,13 +469,13 @@ $ git reset --hard HEAD^ # reset your current branch and working
Be careful with that last command: in addition to losing any changes
in the working directory, it will also remove all later commits from
this branch. If this branch is the only branch containing those
-commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use `git-reset` on a
+commits, they will be lost. Also, don't use 'git-reset' on a
publicly-visible branch that other developers pull from, as it will
force needless merges on other developers to clean up the history.
-If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use `git-revert`
+If you need to undo changes that you have pushed, use 'git-revert'
instead.
-The `git-grep` command can search for strings in any version of your
+The 'git-grep' command can search for strings in any version of your
project, so
-------------------------------------
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ $ git grep "hello" v2.5
searches for all occurrences of "hello" in v2.5.
-If you leave out the commit name, `git-grep` will search any of the
+If you leave out the commit name, 'git-grep' will search any of the
files it manages in your current directory. So
-------------------------------------
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ $ git grep "hello"
is a quick way to search just the files that are tracked by git.
Many git commands also take sets of commits, which can be specified
-in a number of ways. Here are some examples with `git-log`:
+in a number of ways. Here are some examples with 'git-log':
-------------------------------------
$ git log v2.5..v2.6 # commits between v2.5 and v2.6
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ $ git log v2.5.. Makefile # commits since v2.5 which modify
# Makefile
-------------------------------------
-You can also give `git-log` a "range" of commits where the first is not
+You can also give 'git-log' a "range" of commits where the first is not
necessarily an ancestor of the second; for example, if the tips of
the branches "stable-release" and "master" diverged from a common
commit some time ago, then
@@ -523,9 +523,9 @@ $ git log experimental..stable
will show the list of commits made on the stable branch but not
the experimental branch.
-The `git-log` command has a weakness: it must present commits in a
+The 'git-log' command has a weakness: it must present commits in a
list. When the history has lines of development that diverged and
-then merged back together, the order in which `git-log` presents
+then merged back together, the order in which 'git-log' presents
those commits is meaningless.
Most projects with multiple contributors (such as the linux kernel,
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ of the file:
$ git diff v2.5:Makefile HEAD:Makefile.in
-------------------------------------
-You can also use `git-show` to see any such file:
+You can also use 'git-show' to see any such file:
-------------------------------------
$ git show v2.5:Makefile