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[PATCH 11/17] Documentation: remove backslash before ~ in fast-import manual

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20100820103429.GK10407@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<20100820101902.GA10356@burratino>

Use the {tilde} entity to get a literal tilde without fuss. With \~, asciidoc 8.5.2 (and probably earlier versions) keeps the backslash in the output.

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fast-export.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
index 98ec6b5..cbc31c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.txt
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ marks the same across runs.
 [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 export.  For example, `master\~10..master` causes the
+       to export.  For example, `master{tilde}10..master` causes the
        current master reference to be exported along with all objects
        added since its 10th ancestor commit.
 

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  22. Thomas RastAug 23, 2010

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