Re: [PATCH resend] doc: git-checkout: fix placeholder markup
Thanks, apologies for missing this at the time.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, at 6:11 PM, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote:
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> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
>
> The placeholder markup is underscore (_), not backtick (`) as well.
>
> The inline-verbatim markup (backticks) handle interior formatting. This
> means in this case that it applies HTML `<code>` to the underscores and
> `<em>` to the placeholder.
>
> That is the effect, anyway; we can see from the rest of 042d6f34 (doc:
> git-checkout: clarify `-b` and `-B`, 2025-09-10) that this was probably
> an unintended mix-up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
> ---
>
> Notes (series):
> Since this has landed in `master` now.
>
> Documentation/git-checkout.adoc | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.adoc b/Documentation/git-checkout.adoc
> index 431185ca0ba..6f281b298ef 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.adoc
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ uncommitted changes.
> `git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]`::
>
> The same as `-b`, except that if the branch already exists it
> - resets `_<branch>_` to the start point instead of failing.
> + resets _<branch>_ to the start point instead of failing.
>
> `git checkout --detach [<branch>]`::
> `git checkout [--detach] <commit>`::
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ of it").
>
> `-B <new-branch>`::
> The same as `-b`, except that if the branch already exists it
> - resets `_<branch>_` to the start point instead of failing.
> + resets _<branch>_ to the start point instead of failing.
>
> `-t`::
> `--track[=(direct|inherit)]`::
>
> base-commit: 83a9405e59e9cdfb587b19c50f0c040f346dd4ea
> --
> 2.51.1.498.g8f0801f1c10