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[PATCH] Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt: Remove unnecessary URL quoting

From
Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Mar 19, 2009, 23:12 UTC
Message-ID
<200903200012.10454.johan@herland.net>

Embedding the URL in '+++' causes AsciiDoc (v8.4.1) to generate invalid XML. None of the other URLs in Git's documentation are quoted in this manner. There's no reason to treat this URL differently.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
---
 Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 237f85e..64b99d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ objects until you tell it to.  First make sure that:
 Then there are two ways to get a smaller repository.  A safer way is
 to clone, that keeps your original intact.
 
-* Clone it with `git clone +++file:///path/to/repo+++`.  The clone
+* Clone it with `git clone file:///path/to/repo`.  The clone
   will not have the removed objects.  See linkgit:git-clone[1].  (Note
   that cloning with a plain path just hardlinks everything!)
 
-- 
1.6.2.1.352.gae594.dirty
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  1. Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt: Remove unnecessary URL quotingJohan Herland, Mar 19, 2009
  2. Thomas RastMar 20, 2009
  3. Johan HerlandMar 22, 2009

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