{"thread":{"id":"25943","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text","startedAt":"2010-12-03T20:04:17Z","lastAt":"2010-12-03T20:56:08Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jonathan Nieder","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"157250","messageId":"20101203200417.GA15300@burratino","threadId":"25943","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text","fromName":"Jonathan Nieder","fromEmail":"jrnieder@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-12-03T20:04:17Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-03T20:04:17Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"jrnieder@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/281595?v=4"},"body":"Use the {asterisk} entity to avoid mistreating the asterisks\nin \"(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*)\" as delimiters\nfor bold text.\n\n>From a quick search with 'git grep -e \"\\*.*\\*\"', this seems to\nbe the last example of this particular formatting problem.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>\n---\nNoticed while reading the pull --rebase documentation[1] suggestions.\n[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162837\n\n Documentation/git-pull.txt |    4 ++--\n 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt\nindex e47361f..a421789 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt\n@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ With `--rebase`, it runs 'git rebase' instead of 'git merge'.\n passed to linkgit:git-fetch[1].  <refspec> can name an\n arbitrary remote ref (for example, the name of a tag) or even\n a collection of refs with corresponding remote-tracking branches\n-(e.g., refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*), but usually it is\n-the name of a branch in the remote repository.\n+(e.g., `refs/heads/{asterisk}:refs/remotes/origin/{asterisk}`),\n+but usually it is the name of a branch in the remote repository.\n \n Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the\n \"remote\" and \"merge\" configuration for the current branch\n-- \n1.7.2.4\n"},{"id":"157260","messageId":"7vk4jqo9sn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"25943","inReplyTo":"20101203200417.GA15300@burratino","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Documentation: do not misinterpret pull refspec as bold text","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2010-12-03T20:56:08Z","receivedAt":"2010-12-03T20:56:08Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Thanks.\n"}]}