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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-08-20 05:39:48 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-08-20 14:16:51 -0700 |
| commit | b9190e79134ceea2ed0f4a3d1aa90ce6398858f7 (patch) | |
| tree | ffc6d23d654ad6282f31584ebc0cfa8480aff710 /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | 3c56c84eb8d6e74a6a0457ddc3853f2f0200acb5 (diff) | |
| download | git-b9190e79134ceea2ed0f4a3d1aa90ce6398858f7.tar.gz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 66e570113a..f88e9977d1 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`. |