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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-format-patch.txt: fix weird backslash at --root

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Dec 27, 2008, 22:36 UTC
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JCH> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html
That looks OK. All I know is on Debian (1:1.5.6.5-2) it gets rendered:
$ w3m -dump /usr/share/doc/git-doc/git-format-patch.html|fgrep \\-
    $ git format-patch \--root origin

I was patching offline from Debian. OK, in the future I will clone upstream directly properly first.

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