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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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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 7e328ea9dc..e6fa2b9ae4 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ include::merge-strategies.txt[]
If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
-would want to start over, you can recover with
-linkgit:git-reset[1].
+would want to start over, you can recover with `git-reset`.
CONFIGURATION
-------------
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ include::merge-config.txt[]
branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
- supported options are equal to that of git-merge, but option values
+ supported options are equal to that of `git-merge`, but option values
containing whitespace characters are currently not supported.
HOW MERGE WORKS
@@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
be used for this.
* Resolve the conflicts. `git diff` would report only the
- conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3.. Edit the
+ conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3. Edit the
working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-add` or `git-rm`
them, to make the index file contain what the merge result
should be, and run `git-commit` to commit the result.
@@ -154,8 +153,11 @@ After seeing a conflict, you can do two things:
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1], linkgit:git-pull[1],
-linkgit:gitattributes[5]
-
+linkgit:gitattributes[5],
+linkgit:git-reset[1],
+linkgit:git-diff[1], linkgit:git-ls-files[1],
+linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-rm[1],
+linkgit:git-mergetool[1]
Author
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