From: Julia Evans Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:56:33 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] doc: git-checkout: fix placeholder markup Message-ID: <8bf911ab-c9d9-4a22-acd2-2dcd05517f41@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54bc6875cc5.1760652634.git.code@khaugsbakk.name> Thanks, apologies for missing this at the time. On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, at 6:11 PM, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote: > From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk > > 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 `` to the underscores and > `` 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 > --- > > 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 []`:: > > The same as `-b`, except that if the branch already exists it > - resets `__` to the start point instead of failing. > + resets __ to the start point instead of failing. > > `git checkout --detach []`:: > `git checkout [--detach] `:: > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ of it"). > > `-B `:: > The same as `-b`, except that if the branch already exists it > - resets `__` to the start point instead of failing. > + resets __ to the start point instead of failing. > > `-t`:: > `--track[=(direct|inherit)]`:: > > base-commit: 83a9405e59e9cdfb587b19c50f0c040f346dd4ea > -- > 2.51.1.498.g8f0801f1c10