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git-branch man page contains rendered nroff

From
jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 03:06 UTC
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<87hc4dnner.fsf@jidanni.org>
$ make git-branch.1 && man -l git-branch.1|col -b|fgrep .ft|sort|uniq -c
      2 	       .ft
      2 	       .ft C
Yuck.
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  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 6, 2009
  2. jidanni@jidanni.orgJan 6, 2009
  3. Jeff KingJan 6, 2009

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