From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:39:48 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipses X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3-rc0~15^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9190e79134ceea2ed0f4a3d1aa90ce6398858f7;p=git.git 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 66e570113..f88e9977d 100644 --- 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 658ff2ff6..020955ff5 100644 --- 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 `..` in most cases, and - `...` for forced non-fast-forward updates). + `\...` 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 b4314568f..b8aa0b999 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ OPTIONS . 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 cc562a057..e2237ae4a 100644 --- 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