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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-06-30 13:56:34 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-01 17:20:16 -0700
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Documentation formatting and cleanup
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ OPTIONS
-t::
--track::
- When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that git-pull
+ When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that `git-pull`
will automatically retrieve data from the start point, which must be
a branch. Use this if you always pull from the same upstream branch
into the new branch, and if you don't want to use "git pull
<repository> <refspec>" explicitly. This behavior is the default
when the start point is a remote branch. Set the
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want
- git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if '--no-track' were
+ `git-checkout` and `git-branch` to always behave as if '--no-track' were
given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the
start-point is either a local or remote branch.