From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: trast@inf.ethz.ch, gitster@pobox.com,
Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Subject: [PATCHv2 1/3] Documentation/git-branch: cleanups
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331026365-7044-1-git-send-email-user@vincent-VirtualBox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331023866-5658-1-git-send-email-vfr@lyx.org>
From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Changes:
- add a period to a sentence,
- unify the use of backticks.
Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
---
Documentation/git-branch.txt | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 0427e80..d3a923a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ be highlighted with an asterisk. Option `-r` causes the remote-tracking
branches to be listed, and option `-a` shows both. This list mode is also
activated by the `--list` option (see below).
<pattern> restricts the output to matching branches, the pattern is a shell
-wildcard (i.e., matched using fnmatch(3))
+wildcard (i.e., matched using fnmatch(3)).
Multiple patterns may be given; if any of them matches, the tag is shown.
With `--contains`, shows only the branches that contain the named commit
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ the remote-tracking branch. This behavior may be changed via the global
overridden by using the `--track` and `--no-track` options, and
changed later using `git branch --set-upstream`.
-With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
+With a `-m` or `-M` option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
If <oldbranch> had a corresponding reflog, it is renamed to match
<newbranch>, and a reflog entry is created to remember the branch
renaming. If <newbranch> exists, -M must be used to force the rename
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted. You may
specify more than one branch for deletion. If the branch currently
has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.
-Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
+Use `-r` together with `-d` to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
in the remote repository or if 'git fetch' was configured not to fetch
them again. See also the 'prune' subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1] for a
@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ start-point is either a local or remote-tracking branch.
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable is true.
--set-upstream::
- If specified branch does not exist yet or if '--force' has been
- given, acts exactly like '--track'. Otherwise sets up configuration
- like '--track' would when creating the branch, except that where
+ If specified branch does not exist yet or if `--force` has been
+ given, acts exactly like `--track`. Otherwise sets up configuration
+ like `--track` would when creating the branch, except that where
branch points to is not changed.
--edit-description::
--
1.7.5.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 8:51 [PATCH] Documentation update for 'git branch' vfr
2012-03-06 9:00 ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-06 9:32 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn [this message]
2012-03-06 9:32 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] Documentation/git-branch: fix a typo Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-06 9:32 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] Documentation/git-branch: add default for --contains Vincent van Ravesteijn
2012-03-06 19:43 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] Documentation/git-branch: cleanups Junio C Hamano
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