Re: A typesetting problem with git man pages

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Oct 31, 2008, 08:37 UTC
Message-ID: <871vxxtb2d.fsf@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <8763n9tduo.fsf@iki.fi>

Teemu Likonen (2008-10-31 09:37 +0200) wrote:

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> Alas, there are still problems - or at least I have. Let's look at the
> "git checkout" manual page and its output in the "EXAMPLES" section:
>
>
>         $ git checkout master             âfB(1)âfR     
>         $ git checkout master~2 Makefile  âfB(2)âfR     
>         $ rm -f hello.c                                 
>         $ git checkout hello.c            âfB(3)âfR     
>     â                                                   
>     âfB1. âfRswitch branch â                            
>     âfB2. âfRtake out a file out of other commit â      
>     âfB3. âfRrestore hello.c from HEAD of current branch

This has been reported to Debian so perhaps the issue is Debian-specific. I don't know. The bug was found in Debian git-core package version 1:1.5.6-1.

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490863