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[PATCH 10/17] Documentation: remove stray backslash from "git bundle" manual

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20100820103348.GJ10407@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100820101902.GA10356@burratino>

In v1.6.2.2~6^2~4 (Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt, 2009-03-22), backslashes were introduced before ~ to avoid introducing unintentional superscripts. In one paragraph there is only one ~, though, making that not a candidate for quoting, and asciidoc 8.5.8 passes the backslash through so the man page says "\~10..master".

Maybe there is an asciidoc behavior change involved.

In any case, we should replace tildes with a {tilde} entity which means the same thing regardless of where it is found.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Cc: David J. Mellor <dmellor@whistlingcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-bundle.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
index a5ed8fb..f0b75c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ unbundle <file>::
 [git-rev-list-args...]::
        A list of arguments, acceptable to 'git rev-parse' and
        'git rev-list', that specifies the specific objects and references
-       to transport.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
+       to transport.  For example, `master~10..master` causes the
        current master reference to be packaged along with all objects
        added since its 10th ancestor commit.  There is no explicit
        limit to the number of references and objects that may be
@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ SPECIFYING REFERENCES
 
 'git bundle' will only package references that are shown by
 'git show-ref': this includes heads, tags, and remote heads.  References
-such as `master\~1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
+such as `master{tilde}1` cannot be packaged, but are perfectly suitable for
 defining the basis.  More than one reference may be packaged, and more
 than one basis can be specified.  The objects packaged are those not
 contained in the union of the given bases.  Each basis can be
-specified explicitly (e.g. `^master\~10`), or implicitly (e.g.
-`master\~10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
+specified explicitly (e.g. `^master{tilde}10`), or implicitly (e.g.
+`master{tilde}10..master`, `--since=10.days.ago master`).
 
 It is very important that the basis used be held by the destination.
 It is okay to err on the side of caution, causing the bundle file
-- 
1.7.2.2.536.g42dab.dirty
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  13. 12/17 Documentation: remove stray backslashes in rev-parse manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  14. 13/17 Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussionJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  15. Thomas RastAug 23, 2010
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 23, 2010
  17. Jonathan NiederAug 23, 2010
  18. 14/17 Documentation: avoid stray backslashes in core tutorialJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  19. 15/17 Documentation: avoid stray backslash in user manualJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
  20. 16/17 Documentation: do not convert ... operator to ellipsesJonathan Nieder, Aug 20, 2010
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  22. Thomas RastAug 23, 2010

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