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[PATCH] documentation: replace wrongly evalutated backslashed '~' characters

From
Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
Date
Dec 2, 2010, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID
<1291317324-19594-1-git-send-email-sylvain@abstraction.fr>
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Sometimes when there is more than one '~' on a line it gets evaluated even if being backslashed and cause '~' characters to be removed in the man pages.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr>
---
 Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt |    2 +-
 Documentation/git-revert.txt      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 3c96fa8..7300870 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
 	Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
 	of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
 
-git cherry-pick master\~4 master~2::
+git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
 
 	Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
 	commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
diff --git a/Documentation/git-revert.txt b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
index f40984d..752fc88 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-revert.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-revert.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ git revert HEAD~3::
 	Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
 	and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
 
-git revert -n master\~5..master~2::
+git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2::
 
 	Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
 	in master (included) to the third last commit in master
-- 
1.7.3.2
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  1. documentation: escape '~' in git revertSylvain Rabot, Dec 2, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 2, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010
  4. Jonathan NiederDec 2, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010
  6. documentation: replace wrongly evalutated backslashed '~' charactersSylvain Rabot, Dec 2, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2010

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