Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses

The symmetric difference or merge-base operator ... as used by
rev-list and diff is actually three period characters.  If it
gets replaced by an ellipsis glyph in the manual, that would
stop readers from copying and pasting it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 66e570113a077d2c52c4fc3ac09d24a272df5301..f88e9977d1137da0449736f5f8fe6746b42437e1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
 checks out the branch (instead of detaching).  You may also specify
 `-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
 +
-As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
+As a further special case, you may use `"A\...B"` as a shortcut for the
 merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
 leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
index 658ff2ff67f23e9a9d2942e38528dba415139ac3..020955ff5a8635e385208a6a89b1ad71125fb205 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ summary::
        For a successfully pushed ref, the summary shows the old and new
        values of the ref in a form suitable for using as an argument to
        `git log` (this is `<old>..<new>` in most cases, and
-       `<old>...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
+       `<old>\...<new>` for forced non-fast-forward updates).
 +
 For a failed update, more details are given:
 +

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index b4314568f5a742d186e69b97f782193d2883e6b3..b8aa0b999ddf878823622d3884d9def81996c7ff 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ OPTIONS
        <upstream>.  May be any valid commit, and not just an
        existing branch name.
 +
-As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
+As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the
 merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
 leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index cc562a057af3694d3518bc91b52ae322b6b1d9cc..e2237ae4a0a80b0e5aa22cbb13aa5a01ce4fb891 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ excluded from the output.
        reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones.
        When this option is used you cannot specify commits to
        exclude (that is, '{caret}commit', 'commit1..commit2',
-       nor 'commit1...commit2' notations cannot be used).
+       nor 'commit1\...commit2' notations cannot be used).
 +
 With '\--pretty' format other than oneline (for obvious reasons),
 this causes the output to have two extra lines of information