[PATCH] Documentation: fix missing text for rev-parse --verify
- From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
- Date
- Jul 21, 2014, 23:00 UTC
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- <1405983635-77468-1-git-send-email-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
The caret (^) is used as a markup symbol in AsciiDoc. Due to the inability of AsciiDoc to parse a line containing an unmatched caret, it omitted the line from the output, resulting in the man page missing the end of a sentence. Escape this caret so that the man page ends up with the complete text.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 9bd76a5..0b84769 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ eval "set -- $(git rev-parse --sq --prefix "$prefix" "$@")" + If you want to make sure that the output actually names an object in your object database and/or can be used as a specific type of object -you require, you can add "^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. +you require, you can add "\^{type}" peeling operator to the parameter. For example, `git rev-parse "$VAR^{commit}"` will make sure `$VAR` names an existing object that is a commit-ish (i.e. a commit, or an annotated tag that points at a commit). To make sure that `$VAR`
-- 2.0.1