docs: put listed example commands in backticks

Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing
blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of
special characters.  Some manpages make a list of examples, like:

  git foo::
    Run git foo.

  git foo -q::
    Use the "-q" option.

to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to
read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for
example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be
difficult).

This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the
equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without
character interpretation).

As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which
"git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list,
and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
index 1320c873ad61281ef33891170da8683dc785f011..ac7006e6400d85c31bf31a3022a38225373fe3f7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-archive.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-archive.txt
@@ -142,41 +142,41 @@ while archiving any tree in your `$GIT_DIR/info/attributes` file.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
+`git archive --format=tar --prefix=junk/ HEAD | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`::
 
        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
        latest commit on the current branch, and extract it in the
        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
-git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+`git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
 
        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.
 
-git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+`git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
 
        Same as above, but using the builtin tar.gz handling.
 
-git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0::
+`git archive --prefix=git-1.4.0/ -o git-1.4.0.tar.gz v1.4.0`::
 
        Same as above, but the format is inferred from the output file.
 
-git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+`git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
 
        Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
        global extended pax header.
 
-git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip::
+`git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-docs/ HEAD:Documentation/ > git-1.4.0-docs.zip`::
 
        Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
        into 'git-1.4.0-docs.zip', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.
 
-git archive -o latest.zip HEAD::
+`git archive -o latest.zip HEAD`::
 
        Create a Zip archive that contains the contents of the latest
        commit on the current branch. Note that the output format is
        inferred by the extension of the output file.
 
-git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"::
+`git config tar.tar.xz.command "xz -c"`::
 
        Configure a "tar.xz" format for making LZMA-compressed tarfiles.
        You can use it specifying `--format=tar.xz`, or by creating an

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 6c9c2cb3831698bb2d262344ab76baa601e8dde2..7cfa3d92ac8dc7a90068311c0047c667f98515a8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -112,31 +112,31 @@ effect to your index in a row.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git cherry-pick master::
+`git cherry-pick master`::
 
        Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
        master branch and create a new commit with this change.
 
-git cherry-pick ..master::
-git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
+`git cherry-pick ..master`::
+`git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
 
        Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
        of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
 
-git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
+`git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`::
 
        Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
        commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
        these changes.
 
-git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
+`git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
 
        Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
        by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
        commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
        these changes.
 
-git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
+`git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
 
        If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
        the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
        are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
        commit for each new change.
 
-git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
+`git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
 
        Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
        branch that touched README to the working tree and index,

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 07b3c6a0866c5b4ff0b4653b462b332ea0d348c9..062711139c0da753125ae429d7cc3c8a1368a279 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -215,15 +215,15 @@ OPTIONS
 Examples
 --------
 
-git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}::
+`git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}`::
        Looks for `time_t` in all tracked .c and .h files in the working
        directory and its subdirectories.
 
-git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
+`git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)`::
        Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or
        `PATH_MAX`.
 
-git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected::
+`git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected`::
        Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in
        files that have lines that match both.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-gui.txt b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
index 18f713b67a629ecbfd54e6aab1ef4fde89745d2f..0041994443c42033ee7c378ffad8983b0163489e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-gui.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-gui.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ version::
 
 Examples
 --------
-git gui blame Makefile::
+`git gui blame Makefile`::
 
        Show the contents of the file 'Makefile' in the current
        working directory, and provide annotations for both the
@@ -59,41 +59,41 @@ git gui blame Makefile::
        uncommitted changes (if any) are explicitly attributed to
        'Not Yet Committed'.
 
-git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile::
+`git gui blame v0.99.8 Makefile`::
 
        Show the contents of 'Makefile' in revision 'v0.99.8'
        and provide annotations for each line.  Unlike the above
        example the file is read from the object database and not
        the working directory.
 
-git gui blame --line=100 Makefile::
+`git gui blame --line=100 Makefile`::
 
        Loads annotations as described above and automatically
        scrolls the view to center on line '100'.
 
-git gui citool::
+`git gui citool`::
 
        Make one commit and return to the shell when it is complete.
        This command returns a non-zero exit code if the window was
        closed in any way other than by making a commit.
 
-git gui citool --amend::
+`git gui citool --amend`::
 
        Automatically enter the 'Amend Last Commit' mode of
        the interface.
 
-git gui citool --nocommit::
+`git gui citool --nocommit`::
 
        Behave as normal citool, but instead of making a commit
        simply terminate with a zero exit code. It still checks
        that the index does not contain any unmerged entries, so
        you can use it as a GUI version of linkgit:git-mergetool[1]
 
-git citool::
+`git citool`::
 
        Same as `git gui citool` (above).
 
-git gui browser maint::
+`git gui browser maint`::
 
        Show a browser for the tree of the 'maint' branch.  Files
        selected in the browser can be viewed with the internal

diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index 59f8be0be372acc26c98d162437702d19fd8ed36..6c934660d7bf0b5822bf2a7e6f8eb68cecbfc501 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
@@ -88,45 +88,45 @@ include::diff-generate-patch.txt[]
 
 Examples
 --------
-git log --no-merges::
+`git log --no-merges`::
 
        Show the whole commit history, but skip any merges
 
-git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
+`git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`::
 
        Show all commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed any file
        in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 
-git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
+`git log --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`::
 
        Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
        The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named
        'gitk'
 
-git log --name-status release..test::
+`git log --name-status release..test`::
 
        Show the commits that are in the "test" branch but not yet
        in the "release" branch, along with the list of paths
        each commit modifies.
 
-git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c::
+`git log --follow builtin-rev-list.c`::
 
        Shows the commits that changed builtin-rev-list.c, including
        those commits that occurred before the file was given its
        present name.
 
-git log --branches --not --remotes=origin::
+`git log --branches --not --remotes=origin`::
 
        Shows all commits that are in any of local branches but not in
        any of remote-tracking branches for 'origin' (what you have that
        origin doesn't).
 
-git log master --not --remotes=*/master::
+`git log master --not --remotes=*/master`::
 
        Shows all commits that are in local master but not in any remote
        repository master branches.
 
-git log -p -m --first-parent::
+`git log -p -m --first-parent`::
 
        Shows the history including change diffs, but only from the
        "main branch" perspective, skipping commits that come from merged

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
index 635c66956e90452c58938f2d48e84454983f22e6..d7db2a3737fbdb032747bc6dd2740be1a56dfced 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt
@@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ OPTIONS
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
-git merge-file README.my README README.upstream::
+`git merge-file README.my README README.upstream`::
 
        combines the changes of README.my and README.upstream since README,
        tries to merge them and writes the result into README.my.
 
-git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345::
+`git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345`::
 
        merges tmp/a123 and tmp/c345 with the base tmp/b234, but uses labels
        `a` and `c` instead of `tmp/a123` and `tmp/c345`.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 88acfcd4cc8e0eeafc809df0d72b37daded6f8a6..49c6e9fa51daea75272ea7eec8a360bfd324a467 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -327,12 +327,12 @@ a case where you do mean to lose history.
 Examples
 --------
 
-git push::
+`git push`::
        Works like `git push <remote>`, where <remote> is the
        current branch's remote (or `origin`, if no remote is
        configured for the current branch).
 
-git push origin::
+`git push origin`::
        Without additional configuration, works like
        `git push origin :`.
 +
@@ -344,45 +344,45 @@ use `git config remote.origin.push HEAD`.  Any valid <refspec> (like
 the ones in the examples below) can be configured as the default for
 `git push origin`.
 
-git push origin :::
+`git push origin :`::
        Push "matching" branches to `origin`. See
        <refspec> in the <<OPTIONS,OPTIONS>> section above for a
        description of "matching" branches.
 
-git push origin master::
+`git push origin master`::
        Find a ref that matches `master` in the source repository
        (most likely, it would find `refs/heads/master`), and update
        the same ref (e.g. `refs/heads/master`) in `origin` repository
        with it.  If `master` did not exist remotely, it would be
        created.
 
-git push origin HEAD::
+`git push origin HEAD`::
        A handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the
        remote.
 
-git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev::
+`git push origin master:satellite/master dev:satellite/dev`::
        Use the source ref that matches `master` (e.g. `refs/heads/master`)
        to update the ref that matches `satellite/master` (most probably
        `refs/remotes/satellite/master`) in the `origin` repository, then
        do the same for `dev` and `satellite/dev`.
 
-git push origin HEAD:master::
+`git push origin HEAD:master`::
        Push the current branch to the remote ref matching `master` in the
        `origin` repository. This form is convenient to push the current
        branch without thinking about its local name.
 
-git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental::
+`git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental`::
        Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository
        by copying the current `master` branch.  This form is only
        needed to create a new branch or tag in the remote repository when
        the local name and the remote name are different; otherwise,
        the ref name on its own will work.
 
-git push origin :experimental::
+`git push origin :experimental`::
        Find a ref that matches `experimental` in the `origin` repository
        (e.g. `refs/heads/experimental`), and delete it.
 
-git push origin {plus}dev:master::
+`git push origin {plus}dev:master`::
        Update the origin repository's master branch with the dev branch,
        allowing non-fast-forward updates.  *This can leave unreferenced
        commits dangling in the origin repository.*  Consider the

diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt
index 4aecd4d1878e0af6c3e6c87a63df1375606ff65a..f095d57d09f215e48e1f832ca0698e5666119f2b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-fd.txt
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ GIT_TRANSLOOP_DEBUG::
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git fetch fd::17 master::
+`git fetch fd::17 master`::
        Fetch master, using file descriptor #17 to communicate with
        git-upload-pack.
 
-git fetch fd::17/foo master::
+`git fetch fd::17/foo master`::
        Same as above.
 
-git push fd::7,8 master (as URL)::
+`git push fd::7,8 master (as URL)`::
        Push master, using file descriptor #7 to read data from
        git-receive-pack and file descriptor #8 to write data to
        same service.
 
-git push fd::7,8/bar master::
+`git push fd::7,8/bar master`::
        Same as above.
 
 Documentation

diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index 3d0a7d1dac5614d6644a0ea226d65bd9f667143a..b311d59c7c06dd696e3c667c97a5982137bdd87a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ effect to your index in a row.
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git revert HEAD~3::
+`git revert HEAD~3`::
 
        Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
        and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
 
-git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2::
+`git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2`::
 
        Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
        in master (included) to the third last commit in master

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index da0215d20c61c11307ffd4347026cc295b0dc685..665ad4ddab14da173142914407680605dad9dae6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git rm Documentation/\*.txt::
+`git rm Documentation/\*.txt`::
        Removes all `*.txt` files from the index that are under the
        `Documentation` directory and any of its subdirectories.
 +
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Note that the asterisk `*` is quoted from the shell in this
 example; this lets git, and not the shell, expand the pathnames
 of files and subdirectories under the `Documentation/` directory.
 
-git rm -f git-*.sh::
+`git rm -f git-*.sh`::
        Because this example lets the shell expand the asterisk
        (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it
        does not remove `subdir/git-foo.sh`.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show.txt b/Documentation/git-show.txt
index 1f0e30b912f3fe4aa487129fd81ddc1dfa47a88e..1e38819e67cda4282ec7ede004ee5668d0a478c8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show.txt
@@ -48,23 +48,23 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 
-git show v1.0.0::
+`git show v1.0.0`::
        Shows the tag `v1.0.0`, along with the object the tags
        points at.
 
-git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}::
+`git show v1.0.0^\{tree\}`::
        Shows the tree pointed to by the tag `v1.0.0`.
 
-git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}::
+`git show -s --format=%s v1.0.0^\{commit\}`::
        Shows the subject of the commit pointed to by the
        tag `v1.0.0`.
 
-git show next~10:Documentation/README::
+`git show next~10:Documentation/README`::
        Shows the contents of the file `Documentation/README` as
        they were current in the 10th last commit of the branch
        `next`.
 
-git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile::
+`git show master:Makefile master:t/Makefile`::
        Concatenates the contents of said Makefiles in the head
        of the branch `master`.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
index 95b135d8ad9c8e6d5f136d526c8a7a86541b4d35..346e7a20797c22a29733f09e5fe241c84a46bfa9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tar-tree.txt
@@ -53,26 +53,26 @@ tar.umask::
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)::
+`git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -)`::
 
        Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the
        latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in
        `/var/tmp/junk` directory.
 
-git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+`git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
 
        Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release.
 
-git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz::
+`git tar-tree v1.4.0{caret}\{tree\} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz`::
 
        Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a
        global extended pax header.
 
-git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar::
+`git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar`::
 
        Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com.
 
-git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar::
+`git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar`::
 
        Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory
        into 'git-1.4.0-docs.tar', with the prefix 'git-docs/'.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
index 99388bd3744dd593a97dbf34c022d4d5125bba6c..76c7f7eec5bb8ba01262762909939070b55ef5c9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-whatchanged.txt
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ include::pretty-formats.txt[]
 
 Examples
 --------
-git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi::
+`git whatchanged -p v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi`::
 
        Show as patches the commits since version 'v2.6.12' that changed
        any file in the include/scsi or drivers/scsi subdirectories
 
-git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk::
+`git whatchanged --since="2 weeks ago" \-- gitk`::
 
        Show the changes during the last two weeks to the file 'gitk'.
        The "--" is necessary to avoid confusion with the *branch* named