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[PATCH v2 4/6] Documentation/git-tools: fix item text formatting

From
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jul 28, 2015, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Descriptive text for each tool item is incorrectly formatted using a fixed width font. Fix formatting to use a variable width font by unindenting the item text.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
---
No changes since v1.
 Documentation/git-tools.txt | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tools.txt b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
index 129b8c0..ab4aab9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tools.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tools.txt
@@ -16,100 +16,100 @@ http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
 Alternative/Augmentative Porcelains
 -----------------------------------
 
-   - *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
+- *Cogito* (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/)
++
+Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history
+storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
+providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git
+itself and indeed many other version control systems.
++
+Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
+is now in core Git.
 
-   Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history
-   storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use,
-   providing generally smoother user experience than the "raw" Core Git
-   itself and indeed many other version control systems.
 
-   Cogito is no longer maintained as most of its functionality
-   is now in core Git.
+- *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
++
+pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of
+patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a
+slightly different feature set.
 
 
-   - *pg* (http://www.spearce.org/category/projects/scm/pg/)
-
-   pg is a shell script wrapper around Git to help the user manage a set of
-   patches to files. pg is somewhat like quilt or StGit, but it does have a
-   slightly different feature set.
-
-
-   - *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
-
-   Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
-   Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
-   until they get merged upstream.
+- *StGit* (http://www.procode.org/stgit/)
++
+Stacked Git provides a quilt-like patch management functionality in the
+Git environment. You can easily manage your patches in the scope of Git
+until they get merged upstream.
 
 
 History Viewers
 ---------------
 
-   - *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
-
-   gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
-
-
-   - *gitview*  (contrib/)
-
-   gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
+- *gitk* (shipped with git-core)
++
+gitk is a simple Tk GUI for browsing history of Git repositories easily.
 
 
-   - *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
+- *gitview*  (contrib/)
++
+gitview is a GTK based repository browser for Git
 
-   Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
 
+- *gitweb* (shipped with git-core)
++
+Gitweb provides full-fledged web interface for Git repositories.
 
-   - *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
 
-   QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
-   to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
-   changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
-   Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
-   viewers and commit tools.
+- *qgit* (http://digilander.libero.it/mcostalba/)
++
+QGit is a git/StGit GUI viewer built on Qt/C++. QGit could be used
+to browse history and directory tree, view annotated files, commit
+changes cherry picking single files or applying patches.
+Currently it is the fastest and most feature rich among the Git
+viewers and commit tools.
 
-   - *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
-
-   tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
-   written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
-   for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
-   use it as a pager for Git commands.
+- *tig* (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/)
++
+tig by Jonas Fonseca is a simple Git repository browser
+written using ncurses. Basically, it just acts as a front-end
+for git-log and git-show/git-diff. Additionally, you can also
+use it as a pager for Git commands.
 
 
 Foreign SCM interface
 ---------------------
 
-   - *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
-
-   git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
-   branch and Git.
-
-
-   - *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
+- *git-svn* (shipped with git-core)
++
+git-svn is a simple conduit for changesets between a single Subversion
+branch and Git.
 
-   These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
-   series in Git back and forth.
 
+- *quilt2git / git2quilt* (http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Misc)
++
+These utilities convert patch series in a quilt repository and commit
+series in Git back and forth.
 
-   - *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
 
-   hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
-   preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
-   also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
-   in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
+- *hg-to-git* (contrib/)
++
+hg-to-git converts a Mercurial repository into a Git one, and
+preserves the full branch history in the process. hg-to-git can
+also be used in an incremental way to keep the Git repository
+in sync with the master Mercurial repository.
 
 
 Others
 ------
 
-   - *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
-
-   Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and
-   Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
-   to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
-   perform the commit itself.
-
-   - *git.el* (contrib/)
-
-   This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
-   pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
-   tweaking to work on XEmacs.
+- *(h)gct* (http://www.cyd.liu.se/users/~freku045/gct/)
++
+Commit Tool or (h)gct is a GUI enabled commit tool for Git and
+Mercurial (hg). It allows the user to view diffs, select which files
+to committed (or ignored / reverted) write commit messages and
+perform the commit itself.
+
+- *git.el* (contrib/)
++
+This is an Emacs interface for Git. The user interface is modelled on
+pcl-cvs. It has been developed on Emacs 21 and will probably need some
+tweaking to work on XEmacs.
-- 
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